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David Schweikert: “In some ways it breaks my heart, and I wish we could get over this game we play around here where it is a Republican…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 2016
In some ways it breaks my heart, and I wish we could get over this game we play around here where it is a Republican piece of legislation, and a couple of my friends on the left feel obligated to stand up and oppose it, even though you and I know when we had the conversations of building parts of this just 4 years ago, 5 years ago, these were the very things we talked about we were agreeing to. We desperately need economic expansion if we are going to keep the social entitlement promises of this society, and to stand in front of even the small attempts to expand the economy--we need to get on the same page here.
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona
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Sep 8, 2016

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