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On the recordJune 5, 2012
I specifically asked the head of their sovereign debt division if the budget adopted by the House last year, the so-called Ryan budget, would have preserved the AAA credit rating of the United States government. His answer was it would have.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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McClintock defends the Ryan budget's impact on the U.S. credit rating.

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