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Bill Clinton: “I want you to think about it, because the big debate is, what are we going to do with the surplus?”

On the recordJuly 21, 1999
I want you to think about it, because the big debate is, what are we going to do with the surplus?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks in a Conversation on Medicare in Lansing, Michigan

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