Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

As Ms. Bodington said, these are tough times in Rhode Island and a lot of families are struggling.

Senator Whitehouse acknowledges the struggles faced by families in Rhode Island.

08/19/2009

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we run a health care system in the United States that is grotesquely expensive per capita compared to any other industrialized nation.

If you want to look at this as a serious debt and deficit problem... it drops the major part of the deficit reduction opportunity...

If discussion of the debt and deficit is nothing more than a leverage point, a fulcrum to attack spending programs...

My belief is that solving that problem with cuts while in a recession has been proven by experience to be a failed strategy.