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John Garamendi: “It's time for us to go back to our East-West Show, which we have done here many, many nights. My colleague from the…”

On the recordOctober 1, 2013
It's time for us to go back to our East-West Show, which we have done here many, many nights. My colleague from the State of New York, Paul Tonko, who has represented for 5 years now the area where the Industrial Revolution began, along the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. Right now we're in a fix here in Washington. The government is shut down. All of the things you've talked about over these many years, about building the American economy, manufacturing, the research that you were responsible for for the State of New York--and it's all shut down.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Oct 1, 2013

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