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

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

Editor's note · Context

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

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