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Mark Begich: “Is it fair to say that we have been moving this annual deficit down every year? It has been on the right…”

On the recordOctober 13, 2013
Is it fair to say that we have been moving this annual deficit down every year? It has been on the right glidepath--down. If we have a change in the T-bill rates, this effort to keep moving the deficit down will quickly reverse because we pay interest.
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Mark Begich
Democratic · Alaska
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Oct 13, 2013

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