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On the recordMarch 7, 2016
This administration's great failure to date has not been that it makes mistakes. It is rather that it has failed or perhaps refused to learn from them.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Criticism of the administration's failure to learn from past mistakes.

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