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John Garamendi: “Who had a good paying job 2 years ago, a year and a half ago, 6 months ago. These are men and women who over the years…”

On the recordNovember 18, 2010
Who had a good paying job 2 years ago, a year and a half ago, 6 months ago. These are men and women who over the years have been the backbone of this Nation, middle class America, and yet 143 of our colleagues on the Republican side didn't see it that way. I guess they thought, well, if they don't have any money they will go to work. I would ask any one of those 143 to leave here today and go out and see if they could find a job, and if I were an employer and somebody had that amount of compassion, I know where I would send them. I'd send them out the door and good-bye.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Nov 18, 2010

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Garamendi criticizes Republican colleagues for their lack of compassion towards unemployed middle-class Americans.

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