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Harry Reid: “The Senator knows that a majority of those jobs are high-wage jobs. As far as the deficit they talked about--how this…”

On the recordOctober 26, 2000
The Senator knows that a majority of those jobs are high-wage jobs. As far as the deficit they talked about--how this deficit was going to be exploding--$300 billion a year in deficit, and it was masked because there was about $100 billion a year we used to offset the debt, which would have been really $400 billion.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing job quality and the federal deficit during a Senate debate.

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