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Tim Geithner: the current process we use for making these choices does not work. It has not worked. It is completely dysfunctional.

On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
the current process we use for making these choices does not work. It has not worked. It is completely dysfunctional.
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Tim Geithner
New York

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Geithner criticizes the current political process for budget decisions as ineffective.

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