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On the recordMarch 29, 2011
You know, Americans instinctively know that no family, no business, no country, not even America, can stay on this path of borrowing more than 40 cents out of every dollar that we are spending.
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Scott Rigell
Republican · Virginia

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Warns against excessive borrowing and its potential consequences.

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