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Michael Bennet: “Thank you. So a surplus under Clinton, a $1.2-trillion deficit handed to President Obama.”

On the recordApril 23, 2018
Thank you. So a surplus under Clinton, a $1.2-trillion deficit handed to President Obama.
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Michael Bennet
Democratic · Colorado

Editor's note · Context

Bennet contrasts Clinton's surplus with the deficit Obama faced.

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