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On the recordDecember 11, 2013
Mr. Secretary when you left your first tour of duty in the White House in 2001, we were paying down our debt to the tune of a couple hundred billion dollars a year, and were on track to pay our debt down to zero by roughly 2008.
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Bill Foster
Democratic · Illinois

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Foster highlights past fiscal responsibility contrasted with current deficits.

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