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Chris Van Hollen: What we know is old and stale and doesn't work is trickle down economics. The idea you just give the folks at the very…

On the recordApril 10, 2014
What we know is old and stale and doesn't work is trickle down economics. The idea you just give the folks at the very top a little bit bigger tax break and somehow it is going to benefit everybody else didn't work and made the deficit go up. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison), a member of the Finance Committee.
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Chris Van Hollen
Democratic · Maryland
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Apr 10, 2014

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