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Ed Whitfield: “I just have a philosophical difference, I guess, with you also because we have this $16 trillion debt.”

On the recordMarch 7, 2012
I just have a philosophical difference, I guess, with you also because we have this $16 trillion debt.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

Editor's note · Context

Whitfield expresses concern over federal spending on speculative technologies amid national debt.

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