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On the recordJune 19, 2018
It raises some very interesting, profound questions because we have a frequency on this committee of putting up--I don't see it up now, but just a tickety-tickety-tick of the growing national debt.
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David Scott
Democratic · Georgia

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Scott highlights concerns about the tax bill's contribution to the national debt.

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