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Jim Jordan: “We don't pay our bills by going deeper into debt. That is avoiding paying our bills and guaranteeing eventual default.”

On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
We don't pay our bills by going deeper into debt. That is avoiding paying our bills and guaranteeing eventual default.
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Jim Jordan
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Jordan criticizes increasing debt as a way to manage bills.

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