FORT WAYNE, Indiana (Indiana's NewsCenter)--All five candidates for the republican nomination for Senate squared off in Warsaw today for their second debate. Opening remarks from some of the five candidates included swipes at former Indiana Senator Dan Coats, who’s lived outside the state for many years.
Richard Behney: Welcome back Senator Coats to the great state of Indiana.
But the conversation quickly turned to the economy with all candidates promising to cut federal spending.
Sen. Marlin Stutzman: We are 12 trillion dollars in debt how can we afford to continue maxing out credit card on earmarks in frivolous projects right now when we’re sinking our country further and further in debt, how are our kids and grandkids ever gonna pay that debt back?
John Hostettler: When President Bush wanted to create Medicare Part D prescription drug payments there were 24 of us in the House that voted against it. I have a record of voting against new entitlement programs.
Don Bates: One of the things I’ve not heard is that the Bush tax cuts are set to expire January 1st 2011 every taxpayer in America here is going to get a tax increase and so the very first piece of legislation that needs to be introduced is to make those tax cuts permanent.
Richard Behney: I told folks all over Indiana if you’re looking to send me to DC to bring money back to our state don’t count on it I’m not bringing dollar one because that means that I have to stick my hands in someone else’s pocket in other states and bring it back to our state.
Former Senator Coats said his top economic priorities would include making Social Security and Medicare solvent.
Dan Coats: We want to restructure those programs so that they stop losing money people are going to have to take sacrifices they’re going to have to take cuts we have a legacy to the future to our children to get those in balance and not pass that debt on.
The Indiana primary election is May 4th.
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