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Tom Coburn: “It is better. We had a big deficit of $1.4 trillion about 4 years ago, huge deficit, and it is now only about $700…”

On the recordSeptember 18, 2013
It is better. We had a big deficit of $1.4 trillion about 4 years ago, huge deficit, and it is now only about $700 billion.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Coburn discusses the reduction of the national deficit over recent years.

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