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Ted Cruz: What I expect is that each of us is obliged to carry out our responsibility to defend the interests of our States. I…

On the recordMay 21, 2013
What I expect is that each of us is obliged to carry out our responsibility to defend the interests of our States. I have 26 million Texans who I am not willing to go to and say, if they ask me: Why did you go along with the procedural game to raise the debt ceiling, to allow Republicans in the Senate to be shut out, to give up any ability to force progrowth reforms, to get jobs back, to get the economy back, to get people working, why did you give up----
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Ted Cruz
Republican · Texas
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May 21, 2013

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