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Hillary Clinton: “It has been run like a plantation. And you know what I'm talking about.”

On the recordJanuary 16, 2006
It has been run like a plantation. And you know what I'm talking about.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Senator Clinton criticizes the Republican leadership in Congress by comparing it to a plantation.

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