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Amy Klobuchar: Our witness today, Mark Zandi, warned this Committee last month that shuttering the government for three or four weeks…

On the recordOctober 10, 2013
Our witness today, Mark Zandi, warned this Committee last month that shuttering the government for three or four weeks would do significant economic damage, reducing real gross domestic product by 1.4 percentage points in the 4th quarter.
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Klobuchar cites Zandi's warning about the economic impact of the government shutdown.

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