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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor Thursday regarding the need to reduce Washington spending.

 Mr. President, for two years, Washington Democrats have taken fiscal recklessness to new heights. They’ve spent trillions of dollars we don’t have on things we don’t need and can’t afford.

The amount of red ink Democrats plan to rack up this year alone would exceed all the debt run up by the federal government from its inception through 1984. This recklessness is the reason we’ve seen a national uprising against their policies. Americans have demanded that we reverse this recklessness and restore balance.

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