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Ted Cruz: With our vote, but also to defend the ability to have our vote matter, to have it make a difference. Because if this…

On the recordMay 21, 2013
With our vote, but also to defend the ability to have our vote matter, to have it make a difference. Because if this procedural trick is allowed to go forward, what it would mean--this fight right now is the fight over the debt ceiling. Because what it would mean, if we go to a conference committee, as sure as night follows day, we would find ourselves in a month or two with a debt ceiling increase coming back and the Democrats in this body voting to raise the debt ceiling with no conditions whatsoever, which is what the President has asked for.
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Ted Cruz
Republican · Texas
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May 21, 2013

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