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On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
$450 billion every year, Mr. Chairman, on the interest on the debt, is equivalent to almost an entire cost of the 5-year Iraq war.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions compares future debt interest payments to Iraq war costs.

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