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Patrick Leahy: “I ask the Senator: The Senator is aware, I am sure, that during the first 7 or 8 years of the 1980's the national debt…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 1997
I ask the Senator: The Senator is aware, I am sure, that during the first 7 or 8 years of the 1980's the national debt was doubled and tripled; that the administration, then President Reagan's administration and the budget they proposed and received, took all the national debt that this country had built up over 200 years, first doubled it, and then they tripled it. The Senator, I believe, pointed that out. Is that correct?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
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Discussing the national debt during the 1980s in a Senate debate.

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