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Bill Foster: “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…”

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

Editor's note · Context

Foster highlights past fiscal responsibility contrasted with current deficits.

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