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Jim Jordan: “A billion dollars in increased costs at a time when we got 9 percent unemployment, correct?”

On the recordNovember 29, 2011
A billion dollars in increased costs at a time when we got 9 percent unemployment, correct?
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Jim Jordan
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Jordan questions the timing of a billion-dollar cost increase amid high unemployment.

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