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Tom Price: “The silence persists. The silence persists on the majority side because they are loathe to defend the spending that is…”

On the recordJune 27, 2007
The silence persists. The silence persists on the majority side because they are loathe to defend the spending that is going on here in Washington. Mr. Chairman, I find that particularly offensive to the American people. This is not government's money. It is the American taxpayers' money. It is incumbent upon the party that is proposing to spend billions and billions of dollars to increase the debt ceiling in this Nation over $9 trillion for the first time, to ignore the entitlement spending, to ignore $50 trillion in liability. This is the majority party that is silent, silent when it comes to this kind of spending. So I would urge my colleagues to reconsider their desire not to defend their spending.
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Tom Price
Georgia

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Addressing concerns about government spending and the debt ceiling during a House debate.

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