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On the recordOctober 28, 2013
We forget sometimes that it wasn't this Administration, it was the prior Administration that drove us into the worst recession since the Great Depression.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Mr. Meeks blames the previous administration for the recession, not the current one.

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