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Judd Gregg: “I don't consider $300 billion a small amount of money. Now, maybe it is a small amount of money in North Dakota, but I…”

On the recordMay 21, 2008
I don't consider $300 billion a small amount of money. Now, maybe it is a small amount of money in North Dakota, but I do know that $300 billion would run the State of New Hampshire for I think approximately 10 years. Maybe it would only run the State of North Dakota for a couple of years, because I know you have big budgets up there, but I think it is a lot of money, $300 billion.
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Judd Gregg

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Discussing the significance of $300 billion in relation to state budgets.

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