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Paul Broun: “I think overall it has been an abject failure and the metrics I use for determining that is we were promised by the…”

On the recordNovember 29, 2011
I think overall it has been an abject failure and the metrics I use for determining that is we were promised by the President that if we passed this stimulus bill... our unemployment rate would not go above eight percent and it has steadily risen to over 10 percent.
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Paul Broun
Republican · Georgia

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Broun argues the Stimulus Act failed to meet unemployment promises.

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