July 25, 2011 Statements on Debt Ceiling
Debate
4:10 p.m.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
Contact: Tim Miller |
July 25, 2011 |
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Governor Jon Huntsman Statement on
Boehner Debt Limit Plan
Orlando, FL - Governor Jon Huntsman issued the following
statement in support of Speaker Boehner's debt limit plan:
"The plan proposed by Speaker Boehner and House Republican Leadership
is a good first step to deal with our national debt and is in line with
the principles I have laid out since the beginning of this debate: cuts
commensurate with any increase in the debt ceiling, tangible steps
towards a balanced budget amendment, and no tax increases. President
Obama should sign on to this plan instead of
demanding over $1 trillion in tax hikes and a politically convenient
timetable.
"I applaud Speaker Boehner and Republican Leadership in the House for
proposing a plan that makes serious strides towards solvency and will
prevent us from defaulting on our obligations.
"Once this responsible plan is passed Congress must take meaningful
steps toward addressing the long-term drivers of debt with entitlement
reform and a revenue-neutral tax reform plan."
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6:27
p.m.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July
25,
2011
Contact: Alex Conant
Gov.
Tim
Pawlenty's
Statement
on
President Obama's Address on the Debt Ceiling
"President Obama
is lecturing the country instead of leading it. He has presided
over
the largest and most irresponsible run up of debt in our nation's
history, and he now threatens to preside over the first default in U.S.
history. Once again, President Obama did not
have the courage to offer real solutions to fix runaway debt. Where is
his plan to fix Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid? Tonight's
speech was all rhetoric and no results, and is another reason why
President Obama needs to be removed from office."
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8:00 p.m.
July 25, 2011
For Immediate
Release
Contact: Matt Beynon
Santorum Responds to
Obama Address on Debt Crisis
Oskaloosa, IA -
Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) made the following statement in
response to President Obama's address to the nation this evening
concerning the debt crisis:
"President Obama
said tonight that 'people are fed up with a town where compromise has
become a dirty word,' but what the people are fed up with is a
President who uses class warfare as a crutch to divide rather than
focusing on solving the issues affecting each and every American," said
Senator Santorum. "The fact that President Obama
has been shut out by not just Republican but by Democratic
congressional leaders is a clear indication that he has become
incapable of addressing our nation's debt crisis. President Obama
must throw out the failed economic playbook of raising taxes and
recklessly spending tax dollars that he has used for over two years and
make the tough choices necessary to bring fiscal sanity back to
Washington."
To learn more about former Senator Rick Santorum, please visit www.RickSantorum.com.
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8:12 p.m.
For Immediate Release
July 25, 2011
Contact: Alice Stewart
Bachmann Responds to
President Obama's Speech on the
National Debt
Crisis
Cedar Rapids,
Iowa - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann issued
the following statement in response to President
Obama's
speech
on the national
debt crisis:
"Shame on President
Obama
for casting the American people aside as collateral damage, as he
continues his political
gamesmanship with the national debt crisis. The problem with the
president's plan is that he's operating from the wrong assumption --
that we need to
increase the debt limit to pay for increased spending. Despite what
President
Obama says, the people of this
country understand what raising the debt
limit means. It’s the President who doesn’t grasp the magnitude of our
national debt; he compares it to ‘a little credit card
debt’ when, in fact, our ‘national credit cards’ are maxed out.
"President
Obama
isn’t listening to the
American people. Not one person in Iowa, New Hampshire or South
Carolina has told me that we need a ‘balanced approach,’ which, of
course, is code for higher taxes and spending. Let me be clear: I will
not vote to raise the debt limit. The Congress and the President should
not
raise the debt limit. Rather than scaring seniors and veterans, it’s
time to make the tough choices and make the spending cuts necessary to
put
our nation on the path to prosperity, lower spending and a balanced
budget.”
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