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On the recordJune 23, 2003
So that is somewhere a little less than 9 years to go back to a period of time with the unemployment that high. It doesn't appear that the President's first tax cut has kicked in. If it has, it kicked a lot of people out of work. We ought to think long and hard about whether we continue down this path.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the impact of the President's tax cut on unemployment rates.

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