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Virginia Foxx: I find it really like the book ``1984.'' I would say to people, if you haven't read the book ``1984'' or if you haven't…

On the recordJuly 27, 2010
I find it really like the book ``1984.'' I would say to people, if you haven't read the book ``1984'' or if you haven't read it in a long time, take some time to read it, because what you're seeing here from our colleagues on the other side of the aisle is ``1984'' being played out in the year 2010.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina
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Jul 27, 2010

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The speaker critiques colleagues for making misleading statements and compares the situation to George Orwell's '1984'.

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