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David Gergen: “If this Congress is going to be serious, the next Congress is going to be serious, we're going to have to turn this…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2010
If this Congress is going to be serious, the next Congress is going to be serious, we're going to have to turn this whole thing -- we're going to have to do a U-turn in what we're -- the kind of policies we have been seeing coming out of Washington.
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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

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Gergen discusses the need for a significant change in policy direction in Congress.

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