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Charles Wilson: “I rise basically to support my colleagues for introducing this important and long overdue rules package. This sets the…”

On the recordJanuary 5, 2007
I rise basically to support my colleagues for introducing this important and long overdue rules package. This sets the tone for a more open and ethical Congress. In addition to other changes, the resolution creates important pay-as-you-go rules to clean up our fiscal house. As a successful business owner, I learned the importance of balancing the books. If I hadn't, I would not have been successful in business. Our government needs to live by the same rule, and I join my fellow Blue Dogs to push PAYGO as part of the solution to the problems we are experiencing today. We know it works. When PAYGO was on the books in the 1990s, we saw the deficits disappear. Now with an out-of-control national debt, we need PAYGO more than ever. We need fiscal responsibility in America.
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Charles Wilson
Democratic · Ohio

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Supporting a rules package aimed at promoting fiscal responsibility and ethical governance.

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