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Paul Ryan: “I simply want to talk about the underlying Democratic Party budget. And there was a debate yesterday about this for a…”

On the recordMarch 13, 2008
I simply want to talk about the underlying Democratic Party budget. And there was a debate yesterday about this for a number of hours, whether there's a tax increase in the Democrats' budget or not. Well, when we hear the Democrat chairman say that they are balancing the budget, that is what their budget does. It is certified by the Congressional Budget Office as actually achieving balance. So we need to accept the fact that their budget does balance. There's only one reason, there's only one way that it balances. It does so by passing the largest tax increase in American history.
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Paul Ryan
Wisconsin
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Discussing the implications of the Democratic Party's budget during a House floor debate.

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