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Kendrick Meek: I am glad that you are breaking this down so that Members understand exactly what we are talking about. I just want to…

On the recordMarch 8, 2006
I am glad that you are breaking this down so that Members understand exactly what we are talking about. I just want to say that all of these letters that we have received from Secretary Snow raising the debt limit, Madam Speaker, Republicans have given the administration and themselves these increases in the debt limit. Mr. Ryan, can I just walk down there and just rubber-stamp that chart there? This rubber stamp says ``Official rubber stamp. I approve everything that George W. Bush does, Member of Congress.'' You can talk, sir, but I just want to have permission to come down there and rubber-stamp that, because all of these letters that have been written by Secretary Snow, I guarantee you that the Republican majority will grant him the raising of the debt ceiling so we can owe foreign countries more money.
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Kendrick Meek
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