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Chris Murphy: “Just to make one point there, the Democratic budget that we passed last year balances the Federal budget in 5 years. For…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 2008
Just to make one point there, the Democratic budget that we passed last year balances the Federal budget in 5 years. For the first time since the Clinton administration, we are going to have a balanced Federal budget. This isn't pie-in-the-sky rhetoric that you are putting out there, Mr. Altmire. The Democratic budget found a way that we passed at the end of last year to invest money in education, in environmental protection, in health care and do it in a responsible way that provides for a balanced budget in 5 years. There is a way to do it, and we are finding it here. We can do it again.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Discussing the Democratic budget's impact on achieving a balanced federal budget.

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