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Mark Kirk: “Everything the President advocates costs money, so let me begin by saying that it would be my strenuous hope that, given…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 2016
Everything the President advocates costs money, so let me begin by saying that it would be my strenuous hope that, given the fact that our National Government is astonishingly bankrupt, that this Congress would cut more money than it proposes to spend on any of these programs.
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Mark Kirk
Republican · Illinois

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Kirk emphasizes the need for budget cuts over new spending on programs.

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