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Bobby Scott: “I was just going to ask the ranking member, since we have run out of the surplus and Social Security, Medicare and other…”

On the recordJune 9, 2003
I was just going to ask the ranking member, since we have run out of the surplus and Social Security, Medicare and other surplus, as you pass a tax cut, how is it funded if it is not under the PAYGO rules?
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Bobby Scott
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the funding of tax cuts in relation to PAYGO rules.

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