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David Schweikert: “A permanent injury that changes your ability to support yourself. As you know, this last fall, fall of 2015, it was to…”

On the recordFebruary 10, 2016
A permanent injury that changes your ability to support yourself. As you know, this last fall, fall of 2015, it was to be out of money right now. We bailed it out, but we bailed it out in a fairly dodgy fashion. Let's be brutally honest. We reached over into big Social Security, took $114 billion and handed it over here. All we bought was 5 years of fiscal survivability. I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona
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Feb 10, 2016

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