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On the recordFebruary 8, 2011
You have called it catastrophic, we call it reckless, all in all, not a good idea.
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John Yarmuth
Democratic · Kentucky

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Yarmuth agrees with Bernanke's assessment of the consequences of not raising the debt ceiling.

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