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On the recordApril 3, 2001
I believe there is no one in Congress who knows numbers better than the Senator from North Dakota on the Budget Committee--is if we pass the budget that is now before this body as it is written, the public debt will go up and not down. Is he saying that?
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing the implications of the proposed budget on public debt.

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