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Michael Bennet: Can you think of a greater self-inflicted wound that we could manage to accomplish through our dysfunctionality than…

On the recordJuly 13, 2011
Can you think of a greater self-inflicted wound that we could manage to accomplish through our dysfunctionality than drive our unemployment rate higher when it is at 9 percent?
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Michael Bennet
Democratic · Colorado

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Bennet questions the impact of political dysfunction on unemployment rates.

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