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On the recordSeptember 15, 2009
In 8 years we ran up as much new debt as we did in the first 208 years of our Nation's history.
Said by
Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Carper highlights the alarming increase in national debt over the past eight years.

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