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Tammy Baldwin: “These arbitrary and indiscriminate across-the-board cuts will reduce, according to many economists, expected GDP growth…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
These arbitrary and indiscriminate across-the-board cuts will reduce, according to many economists, expected GDP growth by as much as half.
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Tammy Baldwin
Democratic · Wisconsin

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Baldwin criticizes sequestration cuts and their negative impact on GDP growth.

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