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Claire McCaskill: I sit up here and rail against government agencies for being inefficient and ineffective and I am a member of the U.S.…

On the recordJanuary 13, 2014
I sit up here and rail against government agencies for being inefficient and ineffective and I am a member of the U.S. Congress.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Acknowledging the irony of Congress's inefficiency.

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