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On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
To paraphrase President Reagan, in his first campaign in 1980, he asked the American people: Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton compares the current state of the Internet to past economic conditions.

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