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On the recordMarch 13, 2013
Temporary stopgap measures solve little, if anything; they simply put off the inevitable day of reckoning.
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Dan Coats
Republican · Indiana

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Coats argues against temporary solutions for the debt crisis, calling them ineffective.

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