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Party Leaders Put Best Spin on Unemployment Rate

By Jennifer Bendery
Roll Call Staff
Sept. 4, 2009, 3:34 p.m.

On the eve of Labor Day weekend, House party leaders were racing to put their best spin on the August unemployment rate rising to 9.7 percent, a 26-year high.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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