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Pat Toomey: “It would be so disruptive and so damaging to our entire economy, to the millions of savers, Americans as well as others…”

On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
It would be so disruptive and so damaging to our entire economy, to the millions of savers, Americans as well as others, that I cannot foresee how a Treasury Secretary would permit that to happen.
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Pat Toomey
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Toomey warns against the consequences of a potential default on U.S. debt.

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