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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 28, 2015

Well, thinking long term it seems to me a simple solution is to cap the amount of exports as a percentage of domestic production.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 28, 2015

If there's no limit here and there's no definition of the public interest in the statute that these guys are administering, I'm just saying let's define it.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 28, 2015

I subscribe to President Reagan's admonition, 'Trust, but verify.'

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 28, 2015

Accept a cap on the export so that we don't end up with Australia.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 28, 2015

I think this moment will be looked back at, at a time when Americans say what were you thinking when we have, what I call, America's second chance at manufacturing, but we're going to give it away.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 28, 2015

I cannot understand this discussion that will inevitably lead to higher energy costs.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 27, 2015

I think long-term debt and deficits are unsustainable and are, in fact, burdening future generations and the interest rate.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 27, 2015

If you put a balanced budget amendment on top of that situation, with the mandatory rise caused mostly by health care and demographics, and that is all you do, you squeeze the shortfall down into the discretionary budget and essentially…

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 27, 2015

The arithmetic does not work. And, I think of the No Tax Pledge as a kind of ratchet that only works in one direction.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 27, 2015

It is much easier to spend than it is to tax. So, deficits are almost hard-wired into the system unless there is a discipline.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 27, 2015

I just think we have got to do something about this, and we have got to do it in a comprehensive way.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 27, 2015

It is our generation being unwilling to pay our own bills. And we are borrowing from our kids.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 27, 2015

Poverty, because of good work of people like Senator Sanders, has dramatically decreased among seniors over the last 50 years.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 27, 2015

I think if Tom Brokaw wrote a book about our generation, it would be called 'The Great Skedaddle' after the first Battle of Bull Run.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 27, 2015

If you cut taxes when you are in a deficit situation and borrow to make up the difference, all you are really doing is shifting that tax to the next generation.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 27, 2015

Problems put off rarely get easier to solve with the passage of time.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 27, 2015

I am touched by your faith in bipartisanship to solve difficult problems, but not fully confident.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jan 27, 2015

I do not in any way, shape, or form want to see cuts in disability benefits.

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