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Mr. EDWARDS: Well, I have to tell you, I--I'm now not in Washington anymore, and looking at it from the outside, and I'm now running a poverty center in North Carolina, at the University of North Carolina, so it's easy to see why people feel the way they do about Washington sometimes.

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