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Dan Kildee: we're all concerned with fiscal responsibility, but I can recall a tough political vote I took the first year of…

On the recordJune 4, 2008
we're all concerned with fiscal responsibility, but I can recall a tough political vote I took the first year of President George W. Bush. That was on about a $2 trillion tax cut, $2 trillion. That's $2,000 billion. This bill will cost $6.5 billion a year. That tax cut was $2 trillion. There's various ways we have to be fiscally responsible, and I submit that tax cut, in my humble opinion--and I voted ``no'' on it and went back home and faced some wrath, not that much, though--I voted ``no'' on that because I also have a sense of fiscal responsibility. Now you talk about IDEA. I think you will concede that no one's been a stronger advocate of full funding for IDEA than myself.
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Dan Kildee
Democratic · Michigan

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Discussing fiscal responsibility and past voting decisions related to tax cuts and education funding.

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