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Bill Foster: “I did not support the debt limit as a mechanism for controlling spending, which is something I agree.”

On the recordFebruary 5, 2018
I did not support the debt limit as a mechanism for controlling spending, which is something I agree.
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Bill Foster
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Foster agrees that the debt limit should not control government spending.

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