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Joe Cunningham: “When I first came here, there was a $5.2 trillion debt. That is nearly a billion dollars a day. We paid off over $400…”

On the recordMay 9, 2003
When I first came here, there was a $5.2 trillion debt. That is nearly a billion dollars a day. We paid off over $400 billion in debt when we balanced the budget. It is hard to decrease that when we inherit a 5.3.
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Joe Cunningham
South Carolina

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Discussing national debt and budget balancing.

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