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Virginia Foxx: When I first ran for public office in 1994, I said then that we have too much government. We still have too much…

On the recordNovember 29, 2010
When I first ran for public office in 1994, I said then that we have too much government. We still have too much government. In fact, we have way more government than we had then, and it is too much. But Republicans have been listening to the American people who agree with us that we have too much government, and we have made a Pledge to America to reduce the role of the Federal Government in our lives. We invite you to look at the Pledge to America that Republicans took last fall. We believe it has had a major impact on the election that was held in November. What we promise is that we are going to fulfill that pledge and reduce the role of the Federal Government in our lives and take our country back to what it was meant to be.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina
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Nov 29, 2010

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The speaker discusses the need to reduce the size of the federal government and the Republican Party's commitment to this goal.

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