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Jim Lehrer For Fiscal Responsibility

September 26, 2008

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This is the first time I’ve seen anybody press either candidate on how the $700 billion (or whatever) bailout is going to affect his overall budgetary plan. They’re going to have to change, in serious and specific ways.

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Kathy Gilsinan is the associate editor at World Politics Review