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Tom Coburn: One of the things we want people to understand about this is this concept of surplus. I have a little history for us and…

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

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