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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.
John Spratt
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John Spratt
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 1
Banker
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Former U.S. Representative
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Charlotte
North Carolina
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