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Jeff Sessions: “The co-chairs of the Deficit Commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, declared that if the United States failed to…”

On the recordMarch 16, 2011
The co-chairs of the Deficit Commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, declared that if the United States failed to curb our growing debt, the country would face 'the most predictable economic crisis in its history.'
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions cites Bowles and Simpson's warning about a looming economic crisis due to debt.

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