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Christopher Shays: we have three primary objectives. One is to get our financial house in order and balance our Federal budget; the second…

On the recordJanuary 23, 1996
we have three primary objectives. One is to get our financial house in order and balance our Federal budget; the second is to save our trust funds from insolvency, and ultimate bankruptcy, particularly Medicare; and our third objective is to transform our caretaking social and corporate welfare state into what I would call a caring opportunity society. Our country has grown into debt from $430 billion since the Vietnam War to $4,900 billion. That has got to end. Adults, Members of Congress, are elected by adults to represent the children, and that is what we are about to do.
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Christopher Shays
Connecticut

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Addressing fiscal responsibility and the need for reform in social welfare programs.

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