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Steve King: “I want to separate them and I want to resolve this issue with the CR and I think there is not an emergency on the debt…”

On the recordOctober 8, 2013
I want to separate them and I want to resolve this issue with the CR and I think there is not an emergency on the debt ceiling. We are spending less than 10 percent of our revenue to service our debt and this alarm about default is just false.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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Steve King discusses the debt ceiling and argues that the alarm about default is exaggerated.

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