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Joe Biden: I do not want to put words in his mouth, but the gist of it was--was not working very well.

On the recordJanuary 17, 2001
I do not want to put words in his mouth, but the gist of it was--was not working very well.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
Source
congress.gov
Jan 17, 2001

Editor's note · Context

Biden references Phil Gramm's views on the certification process.

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