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On the recordFebruary 3, 2010
What is happening right now in grass-roots America is very, very healthy. People are engaged. And as they have gone through the last year, they saw the passage of a stimulus bill, $787 billion, then they saw a cap- and-tax bill passed in the middle of the night where they added 400 pages in the middle of the night at the last minute.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan
Source
govinfo.gov
Feb 3, 2010

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The speaker discusses grassroots engagement in response to recent legislation.

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