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NRI Ideas Summit: A Conversation with Ben Sasse and Larry Kudlow

Watch a discussion with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow and Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) at the NRI Ideas Summit in Washington, D.C., April 30, 2015: 

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