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On the recordJuly 8, 2013
It's just not acceptable that we're spending this money there and then we go back to our taxpayers and say, hey, guess what, you got to send more money in and we're borrowing 43 cents on every dollar to send over here.
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Ted Yoho
Republican · Florida

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Yoho criticizes spending taxpayer money on foreign operations while borrowing heavily.

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