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On the recordJuly 14, 2010
There is real money to be saved here. We have a Medicare Trust Fund that has somewhere between--I do not know--10, 15 years of life left in it, and we need every dollar--it needs every dollar that we can save.
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Thomas Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Emphasizing the urgency to save funds for the Medicare Trust Fund.

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