On the recordApril 13, 2010
That's not the spirit of this country. That's not the country that I grew up in.
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congress.govElijah Cummings: “That's not the spirit of this country. That's not the country that I grew up in.”
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Cummings critiques the indifference towards Americans suffering during economic hardship.
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