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Chris Van Hollen: I think it is very useful to let everybody in the country know exactly what the debt and deficit will be on a per capita…

On the recordFebruary 6, 2013
I think it is very useful to let everybody in the country know exactly what the debt and deficit will be on a per capita basis. We in Congress of course can do the math. I think it's no problem asking the President to run that calculation as well. Again, I want to emphasize the fact that there's agreement on reducing the deficit; the real differences here are over how we do it. But regardless of how you want to do it, I think the gentleman has offered a useful amendment. The more information for the American people, the better, and we will not object and in fact support the amendment. I reserve the balance of my time.
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Chris Van Hollen
Democratic · Maryland
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Feb 6, 2013

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