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On the recordOctober 3, 2011
I did not support the debt ceiling agreement in large part because all of the cuts were lumped on to the non-entitlement portion of the budget.
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Adam Smith
Democratic · Washington

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Adam Smith opposed the debt ceiling agreement due to disproportionate cuts to non-entitlement budgets.

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