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On the recordOctober 24, 2011
the frustration is really bipartisan in nature, and it has been the repeated assurances of successive administrations, Democrat and Republican, who have suggested just leave it alone, which raises the suspicion here that the reason that we have been fairly tepid in our response has been because they hold an awful lot of American debt.
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Rich Neal
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Neal highlights bipartisan frustration over U.S. responses to China due to its debt holdings.

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