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Emanuel Cleaver: Do you also agree then that Smoot-Hawley, based on economist, your people that you would respect, agree that it was the…

On the recordJuly 11, 2018
Do you also agree then that Smoot-Hawley, based on economist, your people that you would respect, agree that it was the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 that created less confidence in the markets?
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Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · Missouri

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Cleaver discusses the negative economic impact of the Smoot-Hawley Act.

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