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Dick Durbin: “Is the Senator saying, then, that Presidential candidate George W. Bush is using assumptions that come from neither the…”

On the recordApril 6, 2000
Is the Senator saying, then, that Presidential candidate George W. Bush is using assumptions that come from neither the CBO or OMB, but much more optimistic ones to justify his massive tax cut?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Questioning the assumptions behind George W. Bush's tax cut proposal.

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