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On the recordNovember 8, 2007
Can the Senator tell me how many Presidents in the history of the United States of America have proposed tax cuts in the midst of a war?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the appropriateness of tax cuts during wartime.

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