House Proceeding 04-28-09 on Apr 28th, 2009 :: 0:59:30 to 1:00:40
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Jeff Flake: care for sick children in america or to ensure children do not ge . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: madam speaker, may i inquire of my friend if he has any further speakers? at this time i'm happy to yield a minute to our colleague from

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Speech By: Jeff Flake

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Jeff Flake: arizona, mr. flake. mr. flake: i thank the gentleman for yielding. a lot has been said about the last eight years and just to make a note there, there are a lot of us who weren't happy about the level of spending that went on at that time. we were headed for a fiscal cliff. we knew that. a lot of us knew that and a lot of us weren't shy in saying that. a lot of us voted against a lot

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Jeff Flake: of the appropriation bills because they spent too much money. about when you're headed toward a fiscal cliff, you don't step on the accelerator and what's what this budget does. we all know or we should know, we'll claim we knew it when it happens but the next crisis will be when we try to auction off some treasury bills that nobody ys. . do then?

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Jeff Flake: what do we do when nobody wants to lend us money? and we're going to get there, we know wer because this budget puts us on the track to get there a lot sooner than we would have been otherwise. that's why this budget needs to be rejected.