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Gilbert Gutknecht: “Let me just come back to that number. The gentleman said $6 trillion. Now, around this place, we throw around big…”

On the recordSeptember 23, 2004
Let me just come back to that number. The gentleman said $6 trillion. Now, around this place, we throw around big numbers, but $6 trillion is a huge number. Can the gentleman put that in some kind of perspective?
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the significance of a $6 trillion figure during a discussion.

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