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On the recordMay 15, 2018
the first significant negative comment with respect to the last 8 years actually came from the person who became Speaker of the House, John Boehner, when he gave a speech in the fall of 2010 in Cincinnati, in which he explicitly disparaged the workforce, being overpaid, incompetent, too many, all that kind of thing.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly criticizes John Boehner's disparaging remarks about federal workers.

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