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Gerry Connolly: “So the private sector, the free market, in fact, had failed, is that correct?”

On the recordOctober 27, 2009
So the private sector, the free market, in fact, had failed, is that correct?
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Connolly questions the failure of the private sector leading to government intervention.

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