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Kendrick Meek: reclaiming my time, before the gentleman leaves for his meeting, that I am pretty sure is very, very important, the…

On the recordApril 14, 2005
reclaiming my time, before the gentleman leaves for his meeting, that I am pretty sure is very, very important, the gentleman is going to have to not only give the information on the Web site, because we want to hear from Members, we want to hear from Americans, to make sure that we get the information from them on how they feel, especially as it relates to Social Security, the Federal deficit and other issues, because it is important that we share this, not only with young people. We have the 30-something Working Group. But in our age range, I say to the gentleman, there are a number of young parents that are out there, and so many times here in Washington, people say, well, we are doing this for the future generation. Well, the future generation has $26,000 in debt right now and climbing. So I do not know. I do not feel good about my daughter and my son having to worry about college and all these other things, and then worry about the Federal debt at the same time.
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Kendrick Meek
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