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On the recordMarch 18, 2010
Madam Speaker, I think the thing that my colleague across the aisle fails to mention when he talks about the deficit is that, in order to do that, they raise taxes, and that's something they always leave out. They're never real about that. I yield an additional 30 seconds to my colleague from Texas.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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