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Republicans Release New Video Highlighting Nelson’s Reckless Spending Agenda WASHINGTON — When Senator Ben Nelson first came to Washington in January 2001, the federal debt stood at $5.7 trillion; a figure which took over 200 years for our country to reach.  Yet, just ten years later, and particularly over the last three years, as Ben Nelson has rubber-stamped every major spending initiative proposed by President Obama, the federal debt has now hit the once-unfathomable mark of $15 trillion – a 163 percent increase and more than $48,000 for every American man, woman and child. To mark the United States Treasury reaching the $15 trillion debt mark today and to highlight the massive spending by Senator Nelson and President Obama that has led to this point, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) released a new web video – “$15,000,000,000,000…Siriously” “As a candidate for the Senate, Ben Nelson talked about the importance…

In yet another reminder that President Obama and liberal U.S. Senator Ben Nelson’s (D-NE) $787 billion stimulus failed to create jobs while driving our national debt past $14.3 trillion, the U.S. Department of Labor reports today that national unemployment has risen again to 9.1 percent. Today’s rise in unemployment is just the latest development to highlight the failure of Obama and Nelson’s tax-and-spend economic policies in Washington.  While Nelson and the Obama Administration promised their $787 billion stimulus would create “millions of new jobs” and keep national unemployment below 8 percent, the United States has actually lost more than 1.8 million jobs since Nelson helped his Washington party bosses ram it into law – and national unemployment has remained above 8 percent now for 28 consecutive months. “As the unemployment rate rises to 9.1 percent, Nebraskans are reminded once again that the Obama-Nelson agenda of reckless spending has failed to…