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Labrador Votes Against Budget Plan

Statement

Date: Dec. 12, 2013
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Entitlements and the Safety Net Government Budget and Spending

Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-ID) released the following statement today after voting against a budget plan to gut the sequester, raise taxes, and increase spending by $63 billion over the next two years:

"This is a bad deal, plain and simple. Once again, Congress is making promises of future spending decreases in exchange for actual spending increases today. Republicans should keep the promise they made to the American people that they would use the sequester to address the true drivers of our debt and fight for real entitlement reform. We had a historic opportunity to find common ground in order to save Medicare and Social Security. Once again, we kicked the can down the road while making empty promises to the American people."


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