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97: Norm Ornstein on The Radical Right Takeover of the House

The Al Franken Podcast

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Dealing With the Sequester

The sequester put in a certain amount of spending limit at a time when The great recession was still We had not recovered from it. It was doing the opposite of helping the economy recover and you know again, let's get into a little bit of history Why did we have the sequester? When we went through all of these ups and downs in 2009 10 and 11 with all these efforts to try and Balance the budget even though it was not the right time to be doing it.

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