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On the recordMarch 2, 2009
Looking back, do you believe it was prudent as a Nation to have run up, as I calculate it, the $7.7 trillion in debt during those 6 one-party years?
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse questions the prudence of accumulating significant debt during a specific period.

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