04/15/2013
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"we've got to get out of the mess."
"I think the way forward is clear: we need to end the shutdown and pay our bills."
"if we don't approach things with the spirit of compromise, it is going to be very hard to do that kind of long-term debt reduction."
"Our witness today, Mark Zandi, warned this Committee last month that shuttering the government for three or four weeks would do significant economic damage, reducing real gross domestic product by 1.4..."