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Tim Ryan: Let's just remember that we're doing all this without raising taxes. Check your form this year, compare it to next year…

On the recordJune 20, 2007
Let's just remember that we're doing all this without raising taxes. Check your form this year, compare it to next year, there will be no tax increase. We're reducing the budget. We balance it in 5 years, unlike what has happened over the past 6 years with a Republican House, a Republican Senate and a Republican White House. Mr. Speaker, I think it's important to remind the American people of this, that they borrowed billions and billions, $644 billion from Japan, $349 billion from China, $100 billion in 06 from OPEC countries in order to begin the largest debt, $3 trillion. Our friends on the other side have raised the debt limit while they were in charge five times so they can borrow more money from Japan and China and put our national security at risk here and, quite frankly, not account for the budget in the United States like they should. It was an honor to be here with our friend from Florida.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Discussing budget management and national debt during a House floor speech.

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