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Tim Ryan: “How about this for short-sightedness. We are going to cut the Centers for Disease Control. Everybody is talking about…”

On the recordOctober 25, 2005
How about this for short-sightedness. We are going to cut the Centers for Disease Control. Everybody is talking about the avian flu. We do not know what to do. People are making requests of the administration. I am sorry, but government is the problem, unless somebody needs something. And I am sorry, but the Republican majority has had this House since 1994. They have had the Senate since 2000 or 2001, definitely since 2002, and on and off through the 1990s, and the White House since 2001. They cannot govern.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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