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On the recordApril 14, 2015
What I feel like we did in this particular case is, whether it be bureaucratic, whether it be Congress or anything else, we looked the other way until it became such a big problem that it scared people in Texas and in New York and in Atlanta or wherever it may be and then we responded with big money when a few dollars wisely spent earlier on would have corrected the problem.
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Mark Meadows
Republican · North Carolina

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Mark Meadows criticizes the delayed response to the Ebola crisis, suggesting earlier intervention could have prevented escalation.

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