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Robert C. Byrd: Unless we raise the debt limits, how can the Treasury Department borrow the money to pay for the President's proposed…

On the recordApril 2, 2003
Unless we raise the debt limits, how can the Treasury Department borrow the money to pay for the President's proposed tax cuts?
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Robert C. Byrd
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Apr 2, 2003

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Questioning the need to raise the debt limit for tax cuts.

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