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On the recordOctober 28, 2009
In a day and age when we have seen in the first 8 years of this decade, we literally doubled our Nation's debt, we ran it up by another $1.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper comments on the increase in national debt over the past decade.

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