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Tim Ryan: If maybe they paid a little more attention to actually administering government instead of, A, running it down and, B…

On the recordNovember 1, 2005
If maybe they paid a little more attention to actually administering government instead of, A, running it down and, B, trying to use the levers of government to try to hurt our own CIA agents, can you imagine the amount of time that was spent trying to organize this outing of this agent after Joe Wilson came back? Can you imagine how much that consumed the White House? Instead of thinking about better, more efficient and effective ways to administer government, they were spending all that time trying to out Joe Wilson's wife. What a misuse of government power. That is a clear abuse of power and the sleaze factor of the whole deal. I will be happy to yield to my friend.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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