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Pat McHenry: “It is wholly ridiculous on its face that that is in fact not what a new market would look like without the government…”

On the recordJuly 17, 2013
It is wholly ridiculous on its face that that is in fact not what a new market would look like without the government intervention.
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Pat McHenry
Republican · North Carolina

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McHenry criticizes the belief that only government can provide certain market products.

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