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Pete Sessions: “Mr. Geithner--and this is important, colleagues-- Treasury Secretary Geithner came before the committee. He would not…”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2013
Mr. Geithner--and this is important, colleagues-- Treasury Secretary Geithner came before the committee. He would not repeat these words. I questioned him. Of course he tried to avoid it but eventually when asked directly he honestly said: Senator, this budget will not put us on a sustainable path, exactly opposite of what Mr. Lew was saying. I ask my colleagues to consider this. I ask them not to award the person who participated in so calculated a plan to misrepresent the financial condition of America and cause the American people to believe we had some sort of time that had the country on a sound path when we remain to this day on an unsustainable path that endangers working Americans. I yield the floor.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas
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Feb 27, 2013

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