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OneTenthofOnePercent

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1. While Obama instructed the CDC to continue Gun/violence studies...

Reply to Lizzie Poppet (Original post)

Wed Jan 16, 2013, 05:24 PM

Jan 2013

Doesn't funding and allocated funds for the studies STILL have to be voted on and approved by congress?

So the president says, "Continue the gun studies"
The CDC responds, "Sure, where's the money to to the work?"
And congress says, "???"

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