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On the recordFebruary 8, 2011
I think it is very important to address the deficit, but I hope that rather than doing a one-off kind of thing, that you will look at a longer term window.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

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Bernanke urges a long-term approach to addressing the deficit.

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