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Dale Bumpers: “They are not going to get very much, but why do you want to lock in an inequity? You say it has always been unequal but…”

On the recordJuly 22, 1996
They are not going to get very much, but why do you want to lock in an inequity? You say it has always been unequal but want to lock it in?
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas

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Discussing issues of inequality in a legislative context.

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