We don't want to follow Europe. We don't want a welfare state. We don't want a debt crisis. We don't want to prolong this recession. We don't want to keep this path of household incomes going down $4,000. We want to turn this thing around.
Paul Ryan emphasizes the need to avoid a welfare state and economic decline.
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We're adding votes by the day, not losing votes. We're adding votes. And we feel like we're getting really, really close.
The committee has to work on a bipartisan basis, something they haven't exactly been doing. He wants them to get to the bottom of things and investigate, in his words, all things Russia.
I'm confident we'll be able to pass a short-term extension and I'd be kind of shocked if the Democrats would want to create a government shutdown because they have been dragging their feet.
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