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Tom Carper: “God bless Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson because when they proposed to the Deficit Commission, they actually said we…”

On the recordFebruary 15, 2011
God bless Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson because when they proposed to the Deficit Commission, they actually said we will take part of the Voinovich-Carper idea.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Acknowledging support for a gas tax increase proposal from Bowles and Simpson.

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