In the first six years of the Bush administration, with a Republican
controlled Congress, the national debt grew an average annual rate of 8.88%.
In the seventh year of the Bush administration, under a *Democratic*
controlled Congress, the rate of growth of the national debt slowed by
32.5% to 5.99%.
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