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Tim Walberg: “I appreciate my good friend from Missouri again holding this conversation tonight. And I think you're leading into the…”

On the recordMarch 2, 2011
I appreciate my good friend from Missouri again holding this conversation tonight. And I think you're leading into the key point here. Because bottom line, when you talk about entitlement spending, those entitlement programs that we've come to expect in the United States, whether it be Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security--and most of us, at least in this room tonight, have paid into Social Security a long time.
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Tim Walberg
Republican · Michigan
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Mar 2, 2011

Editor's note · Context

The speaker is discussing entitlement spending and its implications for programs like Social Security.

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