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Don Nickles: “It goes to $145 billion, and then in 1999 to $142 billion, and the year 2000 to $135 billion? Isn't that the report that…”

On the recordMarch 4, 1997
It goes to $145 billion, and then in 1999 to $142 billion, and the year 2000 to $135 billion? Isn't that the report that we just had from the Congressional Budget Office? We have 4 years of deficit increases under the President's proposal?
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma

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Questioning the projected deficits under the President's budget proposal.

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