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Robert C. Byrd: “We hear the charge repeatedly from the minority side, tax and spend, tax and spend, tax and spend. What did they do when…”

On the recordApril 20, 1993
We hear the charge repeatedly from the minority side, tax and spend, tax and spend, tax and spend. What did they do when they were in control of the White House? Borrow and spend, borrow and spend, borrow and spend.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Apr 20, 1993

Editor's note · Context

Responding to charges of tax-and-spend by discussing debt accumulated under prior administrations.

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