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On the recordApril 25, 2017
You can't have a half-trillion-dollar trade deficit and then say, 'We are going to make up for that by deregulating the banks and reinstituting the disasters that we suffered in 2008.'
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Jeb Hensarling
Republican · Texas

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Critique of trade policy and deregulation's impact on the economy.

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