On the recordMay 4, 2023
Republicans have put us in this place of a looming crisis. We can and should do, we've done numerous times before under democratic and republican administrations, pass a clean lifting of the debt ceiling.
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congress.govAlex Padilla: “Republicans have put us in this place of a looming crisis. We can and should do, we've done numerous times before under…”
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Padilla criticizes Republicans for creating a crisis over the debt ceiling.
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