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Heidi Heitkamp: When you are in a hole, stop digging.

On the recordOctober 9, 2013
When you are in a hole, stop digging.
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Heidi Heitkamp
Democratic · North Dakota

Editor's note · Context

Heitkamp uses a saying from her father to criticize government dysfunction.

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