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Ron Johnson: “The President's fiscal 2012 budget... was going to add 13…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson Calls for Incentives for Job Creation and Economic Growth

Published | Video Starts at 01:22

We've added more than $4 trillion to our nation's debt over the last three years. The President's fiscal 2012 budget that he just released last about two months ago under great fanfare said that this was The President's fiscal 2012 budget... was going to add 13 trillion DOL to our debt. And when it came up for a vote two weeks ago in the US Senate, it lost 0 to 97. Now that's stunning. (01:22–01:35)

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