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On the recordSeptember 21, 2011
If we really are accepting as a Congress a standard of outcomes of success that is just keeping the lights flickering... we are all going to rue the day that we did not have a more meaningful conversation about it.
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Hiram Bennet
Democratic · Colorado

Editor's note · Context

Bennet warns about the dangers of temporary solutions in Congress.

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