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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Wednesday, December 30
Barbara Mikulski is bankrupting America
FOREST HILL, Maryland - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Rutledge sounded the alarm today against runaway spending by the Democrat-controlled Congress following one-party approval last week of President Barack Obama's budget-busting health care bill.
That legislation, which Democrat Barbara Mikulski voted for, will cost taxpayers $871 billion and serves as yet another example of runaway spending being pushed through Congress by Mikulski and her big spending colleagues in the Democrat-controlled House and Senate.
In just over 12 months time, Rutledge noted, Ms. Mikulski has voted for four pieces of legislation that have become law and cost taxpayers $2.6 trillion, including her vote last week to raise the federal debt limit by $290 billion.
"The math is simple but the numbers are simply astounding," Rutledge said. "Marylanders can no longer afford big government Democratic politicians like Ms. Mikulski. She's bankrupting America with her outrageous spending and in doing so putting every single citizen of this country at great personal risk."
In addition to her "yea" votes for the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or President Obama's health care bill, and legislation to raise the federal debt ceiling, Mikulski voted in favor of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which cost $787 billion, and the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which included the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or T.A.R.P.
"After spending 30 years in Washington, Ms. Mikulski has lost her way," Rutledge said. "She's succumbed to 'inside the beltway' thinking and has played a leading role in the largest expansion of the federal government in American history. I truly believe she's forfeited any trust the Maryland people had in her."
For more information about Jim Rutledge and his campaign for U.S. Senate in Maryland, please visit the campaign online at www.rutledgeforussenate.com.
Paid for by the Rutledge for US Senate 2010 Committee.
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