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Chris Murphy: I come here as a freshman Member and I am speaking from what I saw from the outside. I am sure this analogy has been…

On the recordJune 13, 2007
I come here as a freshman Member and I am speaking from what I saw from the outside. I am sure this analogy has been used here on the House floor over the course of the last 10 hours, but listening to folks on the other side of the aisle, my Republican friends, complain about the issues of fiscal responsibility and transparency has got to conjure up the image of the bull in the china shop. If you let a bull into a china shop for 12 years and then he just tears down everything off the walls, he knocks over every case, he breaks every single glass in there. And then in this case, he runs out of the china shop and says, Well, why don't you go in there and clean that up? Why doesn't somebody go clean up the mess that we just made? That's what happened in this House from those of us who watched it from afar on the issues of transparency and on fiscal responsibility.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Addressing issues of fiscal responsibility and transparency in the House.

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