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Tom Carper: “What Mike Enzi likes to say, he has this 80-20 rule. He says, we agree on 80 percent of the stuff, we disagree on 20…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
What Mike Enzi likes to say, he has this 80-20 rule. He says, we agree on 80 percent of the stuff, we disagree on 20 percent of the stuff.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Focus on the majority of issues where there is agreement.

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