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On the recordMarch 21, 2012
So, what have we produced? As I hear in some quarters, we now have a dysfunctional government, where there is absolute partisanship so much that I believe, Mr. Chairman, our people, the American people, are tired of this.
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Doc Hastings
Republican · Washington

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Hastings critiques the current state of partisanship and dysfunction in government.

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