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Rob Andrews: “I mostly certainly did, and I am about to say something that I think the chairman can confirm we very rarely hear around…”

On the recordMarch 12, 2008
I mostly certainly did, and I am about to say something that I think the chairman can confirm we very rarely hear around here. I was wrong. You see, I thought what you guys now think. I thought that an increase in the top marginal rates would, as the former Speaker at the time said, cause a recession in the country, and the evidence showed it didn't happen. And I am willing to admit that that is a vote I should have cast the other way, and I was wrong to do it, and so were all your guys.
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Rob Andrews
Democratic · New Jersey
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Acknowledging a past mistake regarding tax policy during a discussion on economic impacts.

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