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On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
If the debt is just a stalking horse for an attack on social programs--on Medicare, on Social Security, on other things--and if it is defined, as it has been defined in this very hearing, as an overspending problem, and my colleagues refuse to look at the revenue side of the equation, again, hard to believe that is not a partisan discussion.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders criticizes framing debt as overspending without addressing revenue.

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