{"article":{"id":246698,"heading":"Sen. Bernie Sanders Reads the Riot Act","author":"Bernie Sanders","created":"2011-06-29 10:41:44","modified":"2011-06-30 00:14:43","last_modified":"Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:14:43","article":"

Mr. President, everybody knows this country faces a major deficit crisis and we have a national debt of over $14 trillion. What has not been widely discussed, however, is how we got into this situation in the first place. A huge deficit and huge national debt did not happen by accident. It did not happen overnight. It happened, in fact, as a result of a number of policy decisions made over the last decade and votes that were cast right here on the floor of the Senate and in the House.

to read Sen. Bernie Sanders' address to the Senate, June 27, 2011, click on

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