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Jim DeMint: That's what political decisionmaking does. Because that's not an economic decision.

On the recordJune 2, 2009
That's what political decisionmaking does. Because that's not an economic decision.
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Jim DeMint
Republican · South Carolina

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DeMint criticizes political decisions affecting businesses over economic ones.

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