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We’ll Drag Them Kicking and Screaming if We Have To

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Caleb Newquist

“Then what we’ve done is lay a predicate for this next Congress to deal with where we have $3 of spending cuts for every dollar of revenue increase.”

~ Erskine Bowles

Posted in Quote of the DayTagged Congress, Fiscal Emergency Solved!

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