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When traveling around the 3rd district of Kansas visiting with constituents, I’m often asked what is most surprising to me as a new member of Congress. With a palate of options from which to choose, the answers vary from the hyper-partisanship clogging up the halls of Congress to the local driving skills in bad weather clogging up the streets of Washington. Whether it’s a gridlock or a snowflake, Washington is stuck.
 
This would all be funny if it wasn’t so serious. Every day we pile a new layer of debt on our next generation. This isn’t your garden variety run of the mill debt. This is serious, crushing suffocation of the next generation. Spend an afternoon watching the debt clock tick closer and closer to bankruptcy and you wonder how it ever could have become this bad.

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