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Lloyd Doggett: “This morning's hearing begins to look, in a more sophisticated way, like the standard Republican stump speech, that the…”

On the recordJuly 8, 2015
This morning's hearing begins to look, in a more sophisticated way, like the standard Republican stump speech, that the only thing that is wrong is that people, poor people, don't work hard enough, and that bureaucrats get in the way with red tape and unnecessary regulations.
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

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Doggett accuses the hearing of echoing Republican rhetoric about poverty and bureaucracy.

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