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Ryan, House committee grill Obama budget chief

Ryan, House committee grill Obama budget chief

by Mattias Gugel | Feb 15, 2012 | Business, Politics

WASHINGTON — Acting budget director Jeffrey Zients struggled to stay on script defending President Barack Obama’s budget proposal when he faced fire about its claimed savings from a Republican-controlled budget committee on Wednesday. This was part of Zients’ two-day...

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