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Kendrick Meek: “And pay for it, not increasing this number, not increasing this number, but hopefully having this number go down, so…”

On the recordJune 22, 2004
And pay for it, not increasing this number, not increasing this number, but hopefully having this number go down, so that we do not have to knock on the bank door of China and say, hey, guess what, we need to borrow more money because we need to pay down our deficit.
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Kendrick Meek
Florida

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Discussing fiscal responsibility and reducing national debt.

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