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Jim Bunning: “If we cannot pay for a bill that all 100 senators support, how can we tell the American people with a straight face that…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2010
If we cannot pay for a bill that all 100 senators support, how can we tell the American people with a straight face that we will ever pay for anything? That is what senators say they want and that is what the American people want.
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Jim Bunning

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Senator Bunning questions the credibility of Congress in managing finances.

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