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Jim McDermott: “So it really is political theater, hyperbole, to make it seem like this bill kills jobs.”

On the recordJanuary 25, 2011
So it really is political theater, hyperbole, to make it seem like this bill kills jobs.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

McDermott criticizes claims that the Affordable Care Act kills jobs as exaggerated.

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