Tom Coburn: “One of the things we want people to understand about this is this…”

On the recordMarch 10, 1999

One of the things we want people to understand about this is this concept of surplus. I have a little history for us and a little proposal for what we have today. It makes sense, if we have a surplus, that the national debt should not go up; correct?

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Tom Coburn

Republican · Oklahoma

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the concept of surplus and its relation to national debt.

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