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Bob Menendez: “So now in December of 2009, I asked you whether the economy was recovering, and you answered, 'It is growing.'”

On the recordDecember 2, 2009
So now in December of 2009, I asked you whether the economy was recovering, and you answered, 'It is growing.'
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez questions Bernanke about the state of economic recovery.

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