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Tom Cole: “Most of those people are not very familiar with the damage…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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A Conversation with Congressman Tom Cole

Published | Video Starts at 48:18

But there will be people that will argue that we will be better off with the CR because it won't spend as much money. And Most of those people are not very familiar with the damage that CRs do to the military, to every agency of government. When you can't have an active adjustment in a budget and a real time budget process. The example I always use, if you have a cross, we needed 100 Abrams tanks last year and we need 65 this year. (48:18–48:25)

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Asserts that continuing resolutions cause damage to military and government agencies.

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