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Brad Sherman: “I want to go on to just one last thing as my time expires, and that is we will sanctimoniously and with great hubris…”

On the recordApril 18, 2016
I want to go on to just one last thing as my time expires, and that is we will sanctimoniously and with great hubris tell everybody in Asia that we are going to teach them about democracy, and yet you know and I know that the plan of the administration is to sneak this trade deal through the United States Congress during a lame-duck session.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Sherman criticizes the administration's approach to passing a trade deal as undemocratic.

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