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McCain, 71, also revived a pledge he made in February to balance the federal budget.

``American workers and families pay their bills and balance their budgets, and I will demand the same of the government,'' he said.

In February, McCain said he would balance the budget by the end of his first term in 2013. He backed away from that goal in April.

McCain senior economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin repeated the 2013 goal in a conference call before McCain's speech today. After the speech, Holtz-Eakin said: ``The senator has always pledged to balance the budget by the end of his second term.'' A McCain second term would end in 2017.

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