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On the recordJuly 31, 2006
This increases the national debt by hundreds of billions of dollars. I ask my friends on the other side of the aisle, how could you let this happen? I say that. I plead: How can you let this happen? We will try to stop it. We would like a little help. How can you let this happen? I am really troubled. I cannot understand how they would even have the audacity to bring this up: a $2.10 increase over 2 or 3 years--it is not all at once--and a massive, immediate cessation of the richest of the rich having to pay basically any taxes on their estates.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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