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Karen Thurman: Again through the hearings that we have had, if anybody has been watching the news or reading the newspaper or looking…

On the recordMarch 2, 1999
Again through the hearings that we have had, if anybody has been watching the news or reading the newspaper or looking at Newsweek or any one of the organizations that have been writing about what is going on up here, Greenspan both in the Senate Finance Committee and Ways and Means, Banking, wherever he has appeared over the last couple of months in his report to Congress has been, this is the best thing you can do for this country. And then the beneficiaries are all Americans, because we continue to see a robust economy with jobs being created, businesses having capital to expand and extend their businesses, we have lower interest rates or continued lower interest rates. We know how that has been spurring this economy, the fact that people have been able to refinance their mortgages so they have more money in their pockets for disposable income, maybe for possibly even putting a little money aside for children to go to college or buy health care or help with long-term care for an elderly person, whatever that case may be.
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Karen Thurman
Democratic · Florida

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Discussing the positive impact of economic policies and low interest rates on American families.

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