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Virginia Foxx: I have. I agree with them. And when my constituents say that to me, again through this education process, they have…

On the recordJuly 13, 2005
I have. I agree with them. And when my constituents say that to me, again through this education process, they have learned the problems that have been created by Social Security and, again, they have understood these laws of demographics that we have explained. They want us to stop this. It is a pretty simple thing. Most of the people in my district are just down-to-earth folks with a lot of common sense. There is some sort of rule, what is that law, when you are in a hole, the first law is to stop digging. They just say to me, just quit doing it.
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Virginia Foxx
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