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Joe Barton: I don't know whether to congratulate you on progress or to commiserate with you on regression, but I am glad to see you.

On the recordJanuary 8, 2018
I don't know whether to congratulate you on progress or to commiserate with you on regression, but I am glad to see you.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton acknowledges the mixed feelings about the progress of the subcommittee.

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