On the recordJanuary 25, 1996
These are also the same Republican leaders who for decades have presented themselves to the American people as the party of fiscal prudence, of fiscal integrity. And now they are the ones who are engaged in this most imprudent act of threatening our credit rating for the first time in 220 years, for, as the gentlewoman from Connecticut said, even threatening to impeach the Secretary of the Treasury for trying to avoid that default. All year long I have heard them call themselves revolutionaries. Do you think is what they meant by revolutionary, that they are now going to become the party of fiscal imprudence and jeopardize our credit rating?
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