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Rosa DeLauro: “$80 billion I believe it was roughly, $70 billion or $80 billion for the AMT, which, by all accounts and by every…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2009
$80 billion I believe it was roughly, $70 billion or $80 billion for the AMT, which, by all accounts and by every economist who wrote about this, had not one shred of a stimulative effect.
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

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DeLauro criticizes AMT funding's lack of economic stimulus.

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