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Foxx supports two-week stopgap funding bill
Story Date: 3/2/2011
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Source: Press Release, 3/1/11
Congresswoman Virginia Foxx today voted for atwo-week government funding bill that would save taxpayers $4 billion and fund the federal government through March 18, 2011. Foxx issued the following statement on the short-term bill:
“This bill gives us more time to work out a longer-term solution that reduces spending while keeping the government running,” Foxx said. “Four billion dollars in cuts are a down payment on a substantial set of spending reductions that will put us on thepath to balancing the budget.
“Now the Senate has a job to do: pass a full-year funding bill like the House did about two weeks ago. We can’t afford the 24 percent in spending increases that became law over the past two years. Locking those levels of government spending in place is irresponsible and unsustainable.
“North Carolinians want a government we can afford, not one that runs up more debt for future generations. Congress is way overdue to cut spending, since that’s what our constituents have been doing for the past few years.”
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