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John Sarbanes: “He inherited a very strong economy in terms of the number of people who were working. And participation in the labor…”

On the recordOctober 11, 2004
He inherited a very strong economy in terms of the number of people who were working. And participation in the labor force was up very high. We broke records in terms of job production in the 1990s in the number of people we put to work.
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland

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Discussing the economic conditions inherited by a previous administration.

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