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Jeb Hensarling: “Is it true that the -- in eight years, that the debt would be doubled under this budget?”

On the recordMarch 2, 2009
Is it true that the -- in eight years, that the debt would be doubled under this budget?
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Jeb Hensarling
Republican · Texas

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Representative Jeb Hensarling questions the implications of the proposed budget on national debt.

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