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On the recordSeptember 4, 2001
It was also a time to be back in our States to travel around, to listen and to hear what is on the minds of the people we represent, and for a few of us a chance to perhaps take a few days to go overseas and to be part of the global dialog which comes with this job as much as our dialog with the people we represent. In these past 4 weeks, we have been busy and most of us have enjoyed it, but now we are back to work. We come back to work with additional information and more views on the issues that we are about to debate. What a difference a month has made. Many of us did not believe in this short period of time there could be such a turn of fortune as we have seen occur with the recent report on the status of surpluses in our Federal budget. It was not that long ago we were deep in red ink in Washington with deficits in every direction.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the return to Congress after the August recess and the changing fiscal landscape.

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