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What If Politicians Actually Tried Solving Problems

If we only wait until something is politically popular, we'll all be dead.

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Jack Mirkinson
Nov 16, 2020
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On Nov. 25, 2014, three weeks after the Democrats lost their Senate majority and thus handed both chambers of Congress to the GOP, Chuck Schumer, then the third-highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate, gave a speech at the National Press Club in which he excoriated his party for its passage of the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare, Schumer…

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