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On the recordFebruary 11, 2011
I am grateful. The majority has taken regulation, a subject on which there is a basis for areas of consensus, and has polarized it. They have broken their promises on jobs--look, no jobs bill--and on reducing Federal power by trying to literally usurp power from a local jurisdiction and dictate to that local jurisdiction from the Federal Government what it should be doing.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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The speaker addresses the majority's failure to deliver on job creation and overreach of federal power.

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