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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

Editor's note · Context

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

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