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Jeff Sessions: “It seems to me that a showdown over the debt ceiling resulted in Gramm-Rudman being passed. It resulted in the Balanced…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
It seems to me that a showdown over the debt ceiling resulted in Gramm-Rudman being passed. It resulted in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions discusses past debt ceiling crises leading to positive economic legislation.

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