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Claire McCaskill: “I got to tell you that is a hard assumption for me to make but I am going to make it out of deference to your testimony.”

On the recordApril 23, 2013
I got to tell you that is a hard assumption for me to make but I am going to make it out of deference to your testimony.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

McCaskill expresses skepticism about the assumptions made during the testimony.

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