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On the recordDecember 9, 2010
It is, in my view, a bad deal, and I think we can do a lot better. ... 99 percent of those calls were against this agreement. ... I vigorously oppose the deal that has been cut and how we have to move in a very different way if we are going to save the disappearing middle class of our country.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont
Source
govinfo.gov
Dec 9, 2010

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Senator Sanders expresses his opposition to a tax agreement between President Obama and Republican leaders.

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