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Mitch McConnell: “But we can't support job-killing taxes and adding tens of billions to the already unsustainable to the national debt. So…”

On the recordJuly 4, 2010
But we can't support job-killing taxes and adding tens of billions to the already unsustainable to the national debt. So the only reason the unemployment extension hasn't passed is because our friends on the other side simply refuse to pass a bill that does not add to the debt. That's it.
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Mitch McConnell
Republican · Kentucky

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Mitch McConnell argues that the failure to pass the unemployment extension is due to Democrats' refusal to propose a fiscally responsible bill.

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