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Mitch McConnell
stated on February 1, 2009 in appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation":

To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, "if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion."

By Robert Farley • February 3, 2009