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Patty Murray: “I never would have contemplated and I never would have put…”

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Senator Patty Murray Criticizes Republican Fiscal Policies in Senate Speech

Published | Video Starts at 05:18

… contemplate a situation in which you argued that renewing a tax break that was by law expiring would somehow have no impact on the deficit? To my friend from Oregon, I never would have contemplated and I never would have put it forward [renewing a tax break that was by law expiring would somehow have no impact on the deficit]. And I happen to know that if I had have suggested that, that my Republican colleagues would have been all over me telling me that breaks the rules. Thank you. (05:18–05:24)

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Asserts that Patty Murray would not support renewing expiring tax breaks without considering their impact on the deficit.

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