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On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
Why don't you go back to the Bush years when revenues were up to 18.9 percent of GDP?
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota
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Kent Conrad questions the rationale for reverting to lower revenue levels from the 1990s.

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