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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: I am glad you touched on that theme. It is a pleasure to be here once again for our 30-Something Working Group, where we…

On the recordMay 24, 2006
I am glad you touched on that theme. It is a pleasure to be here once again for our 30-Something Working Group, where we try to talk about the issues from the perspective of our generation and also talk about the issues important to our generation. And for people in our generation and the point that we are at in our lives, what blows my mind and continues to baffle me since I arrived in the Congress last year was the crushing debt that we are buried under right now, and that is not reversing itself; that there are no efforts on the part of the Republican leadership to reverse course, to turn around and go in the other direction and return to the days when President Clinton was in office. We had a surplus, a budget surplus, when we had no deficit, when we had a much smaller debt in terms of our debt to foreign countries. Of course, we had debt to foreign nations but not nearly what we have today. We have more debt combined under this President than the 42 other Presidents that we have had previously. And normally we have charts that we can highlight.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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