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Ed Perlmutter: “If I could jump in here, I mean what was happening under the prior Congress and under this President, President Bush, is…”

On the recordMay 23, 2007
If I could jump in here, I mean what was happening under the prior Congress and under this President, President Bush, is a classic borrow and spend, borrow and spend. There was no limitation on what you would buy or what you'd spend, but you'd cut taxes and you'd prosecute a war that's cost us, by the end of 2008, $750 billion. The budget of Colorado is about $15 billion for a year. We'll have spent $750 billion in Iraq by the end of 2008. Right now we're at about $550 billion.
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Ed Perlmutter
Democratic · Colorado
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Discussing fiscal policy and military spending during a debate on the budget.

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