03/18/2009
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"Today, under the leadership of President Obama, the unemployment rate is 5.5 percent."
"I have listened to my colleagues across the aisle complain about how the recovery is leaving too many people behind."
"In fact, Dr. Furman, a predecessor of yours--Dr. Christina Romer--told this Committee in 2009 that by some measures, the economic and financial shocks we experienced during the most recent recession w..."
"the economy is beginning to get back to what we think of as 'normal' and it is stronger than it has been in years."