How Do Your Members of Congress Rate?
04 November 2016
Pete Sepp, President of the National Taxpayers Union, discusses NTU's annual "Rates Congress" report, which members of Congress are the strongest supporters of sound tax and spending policies, and who are the "Big Spenders" of taxpayer dollars.
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