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On the recordDecember 31, 2012
As former Secretary of State Clinton said in her testimony before Congress in January 2013, that we are abdicating the ideological arena and we need to get back into it.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Murphy agrees with Clinton on the importance of re-engaging in ideological discourse.

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