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Patrick Leahy: “Sequestration would represent an uncompromising, rigid, tone-deaf Government at its worst.”

On the recordFebruary 13, 2013
Sequestration would represent an uncompromising, rigid, tone-deaf Government at its worst.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy criticizes sequestration as a poor government approach.

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