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On the recordFebruary 5, 2018
So the experience that you came in was nowhere near the experience that the Obama Administration had to deal with when they came in office. Is that not correct?
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks contrasts the economic conditions faced by Obama and the current administration.

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