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Mario Díaz-Balart: The stimulus didn't work. We were promised 8 percent unemployment; we are way beyond that.

On the recordJuly 15, 2009
The stimulus didn't work. We were promised 8 percent unemployment; we are way beyond that.
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Mario Díaz-Balart
Republican · Florida

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Diaz-Balart argues that the stimulus failed to achieve promised economic outcomes.

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