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Rand Paul: No. I think once the bill has come due at the State level, you are going to have a real uproar on your hands because…

On the recordSeptember 24, 2013
No. I think once the bill has come due at the State level, you are going to have a real uproar on your hands because there is a printing press in Washington that runs 24 hours a day printing money. In the State capitals they don't have a printing press, they are limited--at least to a certain extent--on their borrowing. When the Medicaid bills come due in Kentucky, our State and other States, I think there will be another war on the question of ObamaCare. The question then will be do we throw out the Governor who increased our Medicaid by 50 percent and bankrupted our State in the process? Mr. McCONNELL. I thank my colleague from Kentucky for the opportunity to exchange some views here about the impact of this on our State and our country. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona.
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Sep 24, 2013

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