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If the Congress is going to spend its whole time hauling up regulators and bureaucrats and looking like they're focusing on tiny, trivial things, instead of jobs and the economy, it could be a problem for them.

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Mara Liasson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 13
Journalist
New York City
New York
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