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Chris Murphy: “Well, we know he is leaving behind one of the weakest and one of the most fragile economies that we have seen in a very…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 2008
Well, we know he is leaving behind one of the weakest and one of the most fragile economies that we have seen in a very long time. Today we get reports from the Nation's largest retailers telling us that they still have not unburied themselves from the holiday malaise. We had a report recently from the service sector showing the service economy starting to bottom out. We have news yesterday from the Labor Department telling us that worker productivity continues to slow. We have an economy after 6, 7 years of the Bush administration's policy left over from 12 years of neglect by the Republican majority that is as weak as it has been in a very long time.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut
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Addressing the state of the economy during a speech on February 7, 2008.

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