Jim McDermott actually said...

The biggest problem with the Republican arguments that are before us--and we just heard it again--is that spending and debt are problems.

McDermott argues that Republicans misdirect attention from their own fiscal irresponsibility.

01/21/2013

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What leverage do we have in terms of forcing the States to pay their debts to the Federal Government?

The funding problem was not excessive benefit outlays that the States were responsible for, but the failure of taxes to bring the trust fund...

The problems that States have had has not been because they increased benefits, but because they reduced the rate that they were charging em...

Which is $8,000.