Is it not true also, according to the General Accounting Office, known as the GAO, that in 17 years without a balanced budget, which the Republican Party is committed to achieving, without a balanced budget in 17 years, according to the GAO that average working person will pay 80 cents out of a dollar to taxes? Have your heard that?
Discussing the implications of budget policies during a floor speech.
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I think we owe them, based on our constitutional responsibility, after 16 years, to review where we are in Afghanistan.
If this could be on national TV, you would probably be having rallies out there right now protesting, because there is no one held responsible.
And I hope to God we are not fighting, and I hope we do not give the President a new AUMF.
If we don't level with the American people in this very unsafe world that we live in, if we want to win the war or protect Americans then we cannot continue to go into deficit situations.
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