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On the recordMarch 9, 2011
It is hard for me to listen to an argument about how we had to come back here and spend all this money, of these taxpayers dollars, to save jobs in the public sector, while at the same time, we callously stole jobs from the private sector.
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Cynthia Lummis
Republican · Wyoming

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Criticizing the impact of student loan program changes on private sector jobs.

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