"There were also good parts with the budget; mostly we restored funding for K-12 education and won an additional $1.2 billion for 100,000 new teachers in grades 1-3 around the country. So there were a lot of parts that were good, a lot of parts that made no sense, but with so much in there it's hard to decide what to do with it. So I voted for it."

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