Jeff Sessions actually said...

We just had a $616 billion tax increase, averaging about $60 billion a year extra income, and we are having recovery from the recession, the slowest in a decade but some recovery, and that results in a lower deficit, as you have reported to us.

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Sessions discusses the impact of recent tax increases on the deficit and economic recovery.

02/11/2013

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