Issue Position: Fiscal Discipline

Issue Position

President Bush and the Republican majority in Congress inherited the biggest budget surplus in U.S. history. Now, just seven years later, President Bush and his friends have added $3.5 trillion to our national debt, running up a stunning deficit of over $400 billion per year - a number that doesn't even include the increasing costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And so our national debt continues to climb.

It's time to restore sanity and discipline to government spending. In Congress I will work to make sure that every dime we spend generates a real return and that we live by responsible financial rules that will make our economy strong again.

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