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Harry Flood Byrd: “Is the Senator going to use that example again of Jefferson's saying that he was opposed to the Federal Government's…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 1994
Is the Senator going to use that example again of Jefferson's saying that he was opposed to the Federal Government's going into debt for an investment of that nature when the debt would have to be paid off by another generation?
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Harry Flood Byrd
Virginia

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Senator Byrd is questioning the use of Jefferson's example regarding federal debt.

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