09/15/2009
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"When I came here, I kind of acquiesced into the idea that public debt, well, we will just argue over it as a base, the public debt, and use those numbers."
"I just do not believe that we can afford to throw another $270 billion of stimulus package when we got so little from the one that we have done."
"I believe we have a culture, a history, a heritage of limited government and we have accelerated our debt situation through a number of bad decisions."
"I just would say that any--maybe you would--my time is about up, so if any of the two of you who have not commented, I wish you would."