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Tom Coburn: “I will spend some time tomorrow then going through what this is. But it is solving our problem in such a way that it…”

On the recordOctober 9, 2013
I will spend some time tomorrow then going through what this is. But it is solving our problem in such a way that it doesn't kick the can down the road, which is what we are getting ready to do. What I would say in conclusion is by increasing the debt limit, we let the politicians off the hook because then they don't have to make the hard choices required for us to live within our means.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma
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Oct 9, 2013

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