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Jim Risch: “We don't have any money anymore. It is gone. We are spending our kids' and our grandkids' money.”

On the recordSeptember 22, 2010
We don't have any money anymore. It is gone. We are spending our kids' and our grandkids' money.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch highlights the financial burden of foreign aid on future generations.

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