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Maxine Waters: “I think I should use this time to get a little mean and to talk about the way that this Bank has been unfairly attacked.”

On the recordApril 14, 2015
I think I should use this time to get a little mean and to talk about the way that this Bank has been unfairly attacked.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Waters criticizes the negative perceptions of the Export-Import Bank.

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