09/24/2018
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"Some of my colleagues have threatened the Nation's full faith and credit by holding the debt ceiling hostage for partisan politics."
"Spending and printing trillions of dollars, caving to the radical left in this country, seeing policies posited and then implemented that led to the worst inflation in 40 years."
"the most radical approach to a problem that was in our rear-view mirror being used as a Trojan Horse to bring in a level of socialism and spending that our Nation has not seen in my lifetime."
"it is essential, you said, that 'we stick to our statutory goals and authorities and that we resist the temptation to broaden our scope to address other important social issues of the day.'"