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On the recordDecember 5, 2012
We never would have gotten the BCA, whether you think that was enough or not enough, in August of 2011, in my opinion, without the threat of defaulting on our debt.
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Daniel Coats
Republican · Indiana

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Coats reflects on the necessity of crisis for achieving budget control.

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