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Dick Durbin: I ask the Senator, would that $600 billion debt, if that is what we end up with, would that break the record under the…

On the recordJune 23, 2003
I ask the Senator, would that $600 billion debt, if that is what we end up with, would that break the record under the Reagan administration which I believe was in the hundred billion dollar range?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Questioning the implications of a potential $600 billion debt during a Senate discussion.

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