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David Price: A year ago we were looking at a unified budget surplus over the next 10 years of $5.6 trillion. Today that figure has…

On the recordJanuary 24, 2002
A year ago we were looking at a unified budget surplus over the next 10 years of $5.6 trillion. Today that figure has been reduced to $1.6 trillion. I would just like to ask my colleague to elaborate on the fact that this is actually an optimistic figure, this $1.6 trillion.
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David Price
Democratic · North Carolina

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Discussing changes in the projected budget surplus during a floor speech.

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