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Patrick Leahy: “The request for the department cuts nearly $1.5 billion, or 16 percent, from the fiscal year 2017 appropriations level.”

On the recordJune 7, 2017
The request for the department cuts nearly $1.5 billion, or 16 percent, from the fiscal year 2017 appropriations level.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy criticizes the proposed budget cuts to the Department of Commerce.

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