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Bob Menendez: We rarely get 60 votes around here these days, and at a time in which that is a rarity, that is exactly what we achieved…

On the recordApril 25, 2012
We rarely get 60 votes around here these days, and at a time in which that is a rarity, that is exactly what we achieved in the Senate on preserving the higher loan limits at a particularly still challenging time for the housing market.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez highlights the difficulty of achieving bipartisan support in the Senate for housing market measures.

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