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Peter DeFazio: “Today we would be paying off the last of our national debt.”

On the recordJuly 23, 2014
Today we would be paying off the last of our national debt.
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Peter DeFazio
Democratic · Oregon

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DeFazio discusses the consequences of not passing the balanced budget amendment.

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