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Bob Menendez: “The problem with that is that the debt payments in Puerto Rico are 36 percent of Puerto Rico's annual revenue, a rate…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 2016
The problem with that is that the debt payments in Puerto Rico are 36 percent of Puerto Rico's annual revenue, a rate that is six times the U.S. average.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez discusses the unsustainable debt burden on Puerto Rico.

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