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On the recordJuly 20, 2009
I truly believe that our government was at its best following the 9/11 crisis, when we came together and created a bipartisan professional commission to study exactly what went wrong.
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Sean Maloney
Democratic · New York

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Maloney emphasizes the effectiveness of bipartisan cooperation after 9/11 in addressing government failures.

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