07/13/2009
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"I believe we all agree that it is important to come together now, as the Chairman said, to develop and enact a sensible plan to reduce that debt in a steady and a predictable fashion."
"the bipartisan fiscal commission that was charged with reducing our deficits specifically warned against that action right now."
"That is why the House Republican plan to make additional, deep, and immediate cuts in various investments in order to hit an arbitrary number is such a mistake."
"We have frittered away our time without addressing the problem."