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Gregory Meeks: I think we should learn a lesson because we are still paying for that when we didn't do everything that we could first.

On the recordJuly 13, 2015
I think we should learn a lesson because we are still paying for that when we didn't do everything that we could first.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks warns against repeating past mistakes in decision-making.

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