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On the recordApril 21, 2010
The frustrating thing about all of this, and of course there's a saying that if you don't learn from history, then you're doomed to repeat it. And it seems like we're repeating history now. But what's frustrating is, really, starting back in January of last year, over a year ago, what the American people said, what many of us here in Congress said back then was we need to be focusing on creating jobs and getting the economy back on track. And, in fact, there are tried-and- true ways of doing that that have been proven every time they've been tried. And one sure proven way of getting the economy going again is cutting taxes.
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Steve Scalise
Republican · Louisiana

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