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Chip Cravaack: “The bottom line for this is we are $14.1 trillion in debt. We are selling our children's futures away. The only reason I…”

On the recordFebruary 16, 2011
The bottom line for this is we are $14.1 trillion in debt. We are selling our children's futures away. The only reason I am standing here today as a Member of Congress is because I'm a father on a mission to restore the fiscal responsibility of this great body. And this is one organization that we can do without.
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Chip Cravaack
Minnesota
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govinfo.gov
Feb 16, 2011

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Speaker Cravaack addresses fiscal responsibility and critiques the Institute of Peace.

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