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Christopher Shays: “I am not voting to increase the debt ceiling, but I am going to vote for increasing the debt ceiling when this President…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 1995
I am not voting to increase the debt ceiling, but I am going to vote for increasing the debt ceiling when this President weights in on a 7-year budget, then the President decides with us where we make our changes in programs, where we cut, where we slow the growth, we participated on a bipartisan basis. But we are going to get that budget balanced in 7 years, we are going to save Medicare, and we are also going to transform this social and corporate welfare state into an opportunity society. We are going to do that, and I think we can do it on a bipartisan basis.
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Christopher Shays
Connecticut
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing budget and debt ceiling issues during a House floor debate.

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