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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Again, Mr. Tonko, we talk about choices. This is as stark a choice, Mr. Heinrich, as we can illustrate. We could go back…”

On the recordMay 18, 2010
Again, Mr. Tonko, we talk about choices. This is as stark a choice, Mr. Heinrich, as we can illustrate. We could go back to policies that got us in the ditch in the first place and give the keys back to the people who drove us into the ditch; or we can hold on to the keys that we wrested from them in November of 2008 and continue to drive this economy in the direction that the American people want it to go.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida
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govinfo.gov
May 18, 2010

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Wasserman Schultz discusses economic policy choices facing the country.

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