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Bobby Scott: “The projection was by 2011 and 2013, we would have paid off the entire national debt and had no interest on the national…”

On the recordSeptember 16, 2003
The projection was by 2011 and 2013, we would have paid off the entire national debt and had no interest on the national debt to pay year after year.
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Bobby Scott
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Discussing projections for national debt repayment.

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