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On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
You say in your own report here, publicly held debt has doubled from 36 percent of GDP at the close of 2007, to 73 percent on 2012, on page 3, 77 percent by 2023.
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Pat Ryan
Democratic · New York

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Ryan highlights alarming statistics about the increase in publicly held debt.

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