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On the recordDecember 8, 2014
If we don't start making difficult decisions now, our children, their children will inherit a burden unlike any generation previously has ever seen.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess stresses the need for immediate fiscal responsibility for future generations.

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