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Walter Tucker: “Let us see what has happened just 1 year later: Growth in good-paying jobs is accelerating at 4.3 percent, industrial…”

On the recordMarch 10, 1994
Let us see what has happened just 1 year later: Growth in good-paying jobs is accelerating at 4.3 percent, industrial production is up 4.7 percent, real gross domestic product jumped up 7.5 percent; the index of leading economic indicators is up for the sixth consecutive month. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Clinton's plan has already begun to work, and we need to support it, Republican, Democrat, Americans alike. We must continue to trust in the proven leadership of this administration and the party which has already proven to you that it gives good economic guidance.
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Walter Tucker
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the success of the deficit reduction plan during a floor speech.

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