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So I’ll repeat what I said yesterday to my Democratic friends: if I were you, I would take a long look at the Cut, Cap, and Balance legislation the House is taking up today and ask yourself a question. Ask yourself: are you so committed to freezing the unsustainable status quo in place that you’d rather take the risk of a government default than in voting for a bill to balance the federal budget? I strongly urge my Democratic friends to join us in supporting the Cut, Cap, and Balance plan.

Today, members of the House of Representative will have a chance to stand up and be counted. They’ll show with their votes whether they believe in freezing Washington’s current spending habits in place, and raising job-killing taxes. Or whether they believe, as I do, that the reckless spending and debt of the past two years has brought us to the point of crisis, and that something serious must be done to rein it without damaging a fragile economy with job-killing taxes. It! ’s that simple.

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