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Byron Dorgan: “We had very significant and increasing surpluses in the Federal budget. As a result of those surpluses, we began to…”

On the recordJanuary 28, 2003
We had very significant and increasing surpluses in the Federal budget. As a result of those surpluses, we began to actually eliminate Federal indebtedness, which relieved some of that burden off the shoulders of our children and their children.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing the impact of federal budget surpluses on national debt.

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