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Richard Blumenthal: “I think it is also your responsibility to give us your best opinion, because as much as we would like to think we are…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2017
I think it is also your responsibility to give us your best opinion, because as much as we would like to think we are well informed, and we are probably better informed than a lot of our colleagues on these issues, we have nothing like the experience, the real-world experience that you will have in these jobs.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal emphasizes the importance of real-world experience in providing informed opinions.

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