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On the recordFebruary 3, 2010
It's not just making it worse; it's tripling it in the very first year, tripling it from 450 billion all the way up to 1.4 trillion. I'd like to come back to you, Congressman Hensarling. I want to ask you that question that I was getting at, and that is--I think a lot of Americans want to know this--when do we hit some tipping point? Does anybody know? Is there a certain point here where we have to really pay attention, that we're going to get things so far out of kilter that the whole deck of cards is going to fall and there's nothing we can do? I'd like to get back to that. But we have another guest from Florida joining us, Congressman Posey, and I'd just encourage you to join us on this question about the budget, the tremendous level of spending, the tremendous level of taxing, and the tremendous level of debt that we're picking up.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker is discussing concerns about rising national debt and budgetary issues.

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