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Bobby Rush: “In my 20 years in this Congress, I have never seen nor heard of anything that is so shallow, any legislation that…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 2012
In my 20 years in this Congress, I have never seen nor heard of anything that is so shallow, any legislation that appeared before any committee in the Congress that is so shallow, so ill-informed, so misplaced than this piece of legislation that we are wasting the taxpayers' money on right now by even considering this headline-grabbing attempt by your side to, one more time, cast the Obama administration in an ugly light.
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Bobby Rush
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Rush criticizes the legislation as shallow and politically motivated against the Obama administration.

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