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Bill Nelson: “Isn't it interesting that when we voted on all these issues in the Budget Committee and on the floor of the Senate, that…”

On the recordMarch 31, 2004
Isn't it interesting that when we voted on all these issues in the Budget Committee and on the floor of the Senate, that organizations that rate the votes, even respected organizations such as the National Journal, when they determined what is liberal and what is conservative, in the votes the Senator from North Dakota and I were casting against raising the deficit in the outyears, lo and behold, they rated our vote as liberal when, in fact, our vote is conservative, not to run the country, over the next 10 years, into this extraordinary national debt that is going to build up like it is a rocket taking off.
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Bill Nelson
Democratic · Florida

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Discussing budget votes and their classification as liberal or conservative.

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