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On the recordMay 23, 2016
I think the greatest evidence of gross negligence, dereliction of duty, breach of public trust was when Members of this body in October of 2013 decided for purely political reasons that you were going to shut down the government for 16 days and cost the economy $24 billion in lost economic activity.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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Condemning the government shutdown's economic impact as negligence.

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