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Susan Collins: “It spends and borrows too much. It will lead to a record $1.6 trillion deficit in the next fiscal year.”

On the recordFebruary 16, 2011
It spends and borrows too much. It will lead to a record $1.6 trillion deficit in the next fiscal year.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Collins warns about the consequences of excessive spending in the budget.

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