02/11/2014
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"Getting the Wildfire Funding Fix enacted into law is something that I, Senator Wyden and several members on this side of the aisle, have fought diligently for, for many, many years."
"And now the CBO estimates that we will return to trillion-dollar deficits starting 2020."
"When Bush took office in 2001, he was handed a surplus of $128.2 billion. But after two tax cut bills and two unpaid-for wars, we ended up with a deficit of $1.4 trillion."
"The United States is on an unsustainable fiscal course over the long term, and the tax cuts--if they are continued--would add considerably to that gap."