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Jim Bunning: “And I have been fooled by some things and some things have gone past me and I woke up after it had already passed me.…”

On the recordFebruary 24, 2010
And I have been fooled by some things and some things have gone past me and I woke up after it had already passed me. This is not one of those things that was going to do that. Of course, we can have a vote on it, and, of course, it can be defeated, and then, of course, we can pass the bill without the money. I am not willing to risk that $10 billion being added to the deficit. I was not ready to risk voting on a bill I knew would not get the amount of votes necessary to pay for it. If the majority leader would have included it in his UC, I would have had no problems. But he did not include it in his UC. So that was the reason I asked to pay for it.
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Jim Bunning
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Feb 24, 2010

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The speaker discusses concerns about adding to the deficit and the funding of a bill.

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