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Bobby Scott: as this chart shows, we could have done better, and we did do better when President Clinton vetoed the irresponsible…

On the recordOctober 25, 2005
as this chart shows, we could have done better, and we did do better when President Clinton vetoed the irresponsible budgets and there were enough Democrats in Congress to sustain those vetoes. And if we look at that chart, every year is better than the one before. And when this administration came in in 2001, they inherited a 10-year $5 trillion surplus, $5 trillion surplus; and now it looks like those same 10 years will run into a deficit of over $3 trillion, a total of over $9 trillion.
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Bobby Scott
Democratic · Virginia

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