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On the recordJune 18, 2007
It means we as the Congress are doing the same thing the American people have to do in their own home. Checkbooks, you have to have money on one side of the ledger if you want to spend it on another. That is something this Congress has not done.
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Jason Altmire
Pennsylvania

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Discussing fiscal responsibility in Congress.

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