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On the recordDecember 15, 2009
Our Nation is on a fiscal path that is not sustainable. Our Country has accumulated as much new debt in the first 8 years of this decade as we did in the first 208 years of our Nation's history.
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Russ Feingold
Democratic · Wisconsin

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Feingold highlights the unsustainable fiscal path and rising national debt.

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