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Carolyn Maloney: “A shutdown is a self-imposed injury, a self-manufactured crisis that we should not have to suffer through.”

On the recordOctober 15, 2013
A shutdown is a self-imposed injury, a self-manufactured crisis that we should not have to suffer through.
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Carolyn Maloney
Democratic · New York

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Maloney criticizes the government shutdown as unnecessary and harmful.

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