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On the recordJanuary 21, 2015
With all due respect, I hear a lot of ideas about how we can spend money, but I do not hear a lot of great ideas about how we can pay down our debt as opposed to pass it on to the future generations.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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Cornyn emphasizes the need for solutions to reduce national debt.

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