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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: It is just, we have got to get a handle on this. We have to restore some fiscal sanity. We have to put on some brakes…

On the recordMarch 28, 2006
It is just, we have got to get a handle on this. We have to restore some fiscal sanity. We have to put on some brakes and we need a little tough mother love. Maybe it is just that we need to bring a few more moms into this Chamber and we will have a little more tough love, because apparently the folks here are either out of practice, or I don't know, maybe the discipline around their homes isn't, you know, is not so strong.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

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