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Tom Coburn: “Let me make a little correction. We hope to achieve real surpluses if the tendency of Washington is restrained to throw…”

On the recordApril 21, 1999
Let me make a little correction. We hope to achieve real surpluses if the tendency of Washington is restrained to throw money at everything, and so that is our job. We are going to be talking here in a little bit about how what the President has put us into in terms of Kosovo is going to affect all these numbers. It is important that we have a discussion about that and how it is going to impact us. The gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Sanford) actually has a chart that shows what has happened.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of government spending and the situation in Kosovo on budget surpluses.

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