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Xavier Becerra: “Decisions were made to extinguish a $5.6 trillion surplus.”

On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
Decisions were made to extinguish a $5.6 trillion surplus.
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Xavier Becerra
Democratic · California

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Becerra discusses the decisions leading to the current deficit.

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