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Jim Inhofe: With 9.1 percent unemployment, that is not what I call successful.

On the recordJune 14, 2011
With 9.1 percent unemployment, that is not what I call successful.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe criticizes the current unemployment rate as a sign of failure.

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