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On the recordMarch 18, 2009
But I have also spent a considerable amount of time in the private sector, and when I look at the economic challenges that are occurring now in our country they seem to be borne much more heavily by the private sector than the public sector.
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Cynthia Lummis
Republican · Wyoming

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Lummis compares economic challenges faced by private and public sectors.

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