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Sen. Paul Simon: “A rising tide of red ink sinks all boats.”

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Entitlement spending threatens funding for essential programs like the NIH.

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Jun 30, 2010

You face a much harsher judge . . . than this committee and that is the judgment of history.

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Mar 19, 2017

You face a much harsher judge than this Committee, and that is the judgment of history, and that judgment is likely to revolve around the question, did you restrict freedom or did you expand it.

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Dec 8, 2014

A rising tide of red ink sinks all boats.

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Mar 1, 1994

Just in response to one item mentioned by my friend from Tennessee. He and I agree on Social Security. We differ on the Reid amendment. When he talks about 110 percent of debt versus GDP in 1945 after World War II, what that ignores is…

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