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Jay Rockefeller: “Indiscriminate and unthinking budget cuts seeking a short-term improvement in our deficit will leave the country's…”

On the recordMay 10, 2011
Indiscriminate and unthinking budget cuts seeking a short-term improvement in our deficit will leave the country's economic power at the mercy of the rest of the world's economic power.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Warning against harmful budget cuts affecting economic stability.

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