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Tom Cotton: If we can do both, interest payments will fall, and economic growth will pick up!

On the recordSeptember 7, 2016
If we can do both, interest payments will fall, and economic growth will pick up!
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Tom Cotton emphasizes the need for spending restraint and tax reform to boost economic growth.

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