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On the recordMay 12, 2010
Let me add up the percentages of the formerly private sector from a year and a half ago, and it comes to 74 percent of the private sector would be either nationalized today or nationalized with the two acts that are pending that they're trying to bring at us, that being cap-and-trade and the financial services, Mr. Akin, and I'd yield back.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa
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May 12, 2010

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The speaker discusses concerns about nationalization of the private sector related to pending legislation.

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