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Jeff Sessions: “If we do not do something about this now when we are in the world of 2 percent interest, it is going to be too late when…”

On the recordJune 10, 2014
If we do not do something about this now when we are in the world of 2 percent interest, it is going to be too late when it is 5 or 6 percent, because all fiscal hell is going to break loose around here.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions warns of dire consequences if action on debt is delayed.

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