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Charles W. Stenholm: “The Blue Dog budget assumes that we need a change. The gentleman's budget and economic game plan that he has been so…”

On the recordMarch 25, 2004
The Blue Dog budget assumes that we need a change. The gentleman's budget and economic game plan that he has been so proud of since 2001 has given us the largest deficits in the history of this country. We have borrowed $1 trillion in the last 2 rac{1}{2} years. We are going to borrow another $1 trillion in the next 1 rac{1}{2} years, and yet he comes and says his numbers are better than our numbers. We simply propose a change, and it ought to be a bipartisan change and it ought to be one that adopts pay-as-you-go so that we get back on a fiscally responsible direction for this country. We thought we had a bipartisan support for that. It passed the Senate in a bipartisan way. What happened in this body?
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Discussing the need for a bipartisan budget change and fiscal responsibility.

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