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On the recordJune 12, 2013
I have been sitting on this committee listening to the fact that we need to reduce the tax rate to 25 percent on corporations, that that would make them competitive worldwide.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

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McDermott critiques the push for lower corporate tax rates for competitiveness.

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