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On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
So we were just talking about now you've got the situation with the Federal Government spending a third more than it takes in. So we've got to figure out some way of how we're going to skin this cat. And one way is to just try to take a certain 10 percent or whatever the percentage is. Actually, it would be 33 percent off of everything or whatever. Or what you could say would be, what are the things that we have to do, and what are the things that maybe are nice but we can't afford it, and what are the things that may be actually unconstitutional. And I suspect when you're one-third over budget, it's going to be hard to just do a set percentage across the board. I suspect we're going to get into, I think, some very interesting questions about what's really constitutional and does the Federal Government really have to do that function? Maybe it's an important thing to get done, but maybe the Federal Government shouldn't do it.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker discusses the challenges of federal government spending exceeding revenue.

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