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Tim Scott: “The real challenge that we have with our pension plans, that are, to me, underfunded, our health care that we already…”

On the recordDecember 17, 2013
The real challenge that we have with our pension plans, that are, to me, underfunded, our health care that we already are exposed to, so we are talking about a couple hundred trillion dollars--trillion dollars--of unfunded liabilities.
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Tim Scott highlights the significant unfunded liabilities in pension and healthcare.

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