Kendrick Meek: “Not this borrow money from foreign countries stuff. Again, in Spratt…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2006

Not this borrow money from foreign countries stuff. Again, in Spratt substitute amendment to Resolution 393, 2005 budget, again, voted down 224, not one Republican voted to pay as we go, Mr. Speaker. Now what I am going to do, Mr. Ryan, when we come back in an hour, I am going to read off other examples, at least five others within the last couple of years. We have tried to put this country on the right track. But guess what? The Republican majority has blocked us.

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