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On the recordFebruary 3, 2009
I find it extraordinary that after 8 long years of Republican rule around here, where we saw the debt go from $5 trillion to $10 trillion, and not a word from the other side about fiscal responsibility, with tax cut after tax cut to the wealthiest few, an unlimited checkbook for Iraq--no problem then. We did not hear speeches about the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren. Oh, no. All of a sudden, when the middle class is hurting, when the working poor are hurting, when people are losing their homes--not the richest of the rich; they are fine; they do not have mortgages--average families, suddenly my friends on the other side come out with their charts: Oh, my goodness, a trillion dollars of spending.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Responding to Republican concerns about rushing a bill during Senate floor debate.

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