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Rand Paul: “I guess ``surprised'' is not the word I would choose; I would say disappointed. You know, the tea party movement--we had…”

On the recordOctober 7, 2021
I guess ``surprised'' is not the word I would choose; I would say disappointed. You know, the tea party movement--we had 100,000 people on the Mall out there. People were concerned about the debt. They were concerned about constitutional government. I remember you and I meeting for the first time and talking about how we needed to reverse some of these terrible precedents that had allowed government to grow large and that the courts need to reform government, as well as government be reformed from its elected officials. But, yes, we had a great debate that summer. In the summer of 2011, we said we wouldn't raise the debt ceiling without reform.
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky
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Oct 7, 2021

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