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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Over 95 percent of Republicans voted against it. So we could continue to move in the direction in which we have been…”

On the recordJuly 27, 2010
Over 95 percent of Republicans voted against it. So we could continue to move in the direction in which we have been going--job creation, spurring the economy, investing in America--or we could backslide toward the Bush era and go back to the exact same agenda as they have committed to focusing on, but I'm not sure that I've met anybody who wants to go back to that agenda.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida
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govinfo.gov
Jul 27, 2010

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Wasserman Schultz discusses the Republican opposition to economic policies and the desire to avoid returning to past agendas.

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