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Jim Bunning: We have tried to work this out with the majority, particularly after the pay-go vote last week. When 100 Senators are…

On the recordFebruary 26, 2010
We have tried to work this out with the majority, particularly after the pay-go vote last week. When 100 Senators are for a bill and we can't find $10 billion to pay for it, there is something the matter, seriously the matter with this body. I said that last night. I don't wish to repeat myself. I have offered several ways to pay for it. If everybody in this Chamber... believes, as the Senator from Illinois does, that this is essential and we should pass it, then we should pay for it. There are going to be other bills brought to the floor that are not going to be paid for, and I am going to object every time they do it. I don't much agree with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, but it was striking yesterday when he said if the present level of debt and the present administration's budget is passed, the debt of the United States will be unsustainable. I have too many young grandchildren who want America to be the same America I grew up in. I am worried to death that will not be the case.
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Jim Bunning
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Feb 26, 2010

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Bunning addresses concerns about government spending and the sustainability of U.S. debt.

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