Democrat Carolyn Maloney asked him about economist's predictions that it would take the country to full employment: "Assuming that jobs are created at 2.8 million jobs per year, the best job creation of any administration, and this was achieved by former President Clinton, how long would you expect it to take us to get back to full employment?" "Well,without offering an opinion on that 10.7 million jobs, at that rate though, it would be about three years."

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