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Jeff Sessions: “I have used the public debt simply because nobody disputed that that was a bottom-line debt figure.”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2010
I have used the public debt simply because nobody disputed that that was a bottom-line debt figure.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions emphasizes the importance of public debt as a clear measure.

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