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Alexander, Corker To Vote Against Budget Agreement
Senator Lamar Alexander on Tuesday released the following statement on Senate consideration of the budget agreement passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 332-94: “I will vote against the budget agreement because it avoids the federal government’s most urgent need: reducing the growth of runaway entitlement spending. Instead, it spends savings that should be used to strengthen Medicare, pensions, and the air transportation system. “It would have been better to pay for this agreement with a small part of the $1 trillion in entitlement savings that Sen. Corker and I have identified in our ‘Fiscal Sustainability Act”...Read More
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