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On the recordFebruary 9, 1994
That is what happens when we have a socialized type of system. Ironically, many of these countries, including, I think, Canada, are looking at the United States' system for ways to suggest to them how they might improve their own, and yet our leader is looking to the socialistic system, looking for ways to ``improve our system.''
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John Doolittle
Republican · California

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Speaker Doolittle critiques the comparison between socialized systems and the U.S. system.

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