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John Sarbanes: So at the time we were running this surplus--and let me just note, it had taken a lot of work to get out of an earlier…

On the recordDecember 19, 2005
So at the time we were running this surplus--and let me just note, it had taken a lot of work to get out of an earlier deficit into surplus--and there was some concern expressed that the excessive tax cuts the President was proposing would throw us into a budget deficit and we would lose that surplus, the President told us in no uncertain terms that there was no reason to fear budget deficits; is that correct?
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John Sarbanes
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