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Dana Rohrabacher: “No decent American or anyone else is going to turn the other way as young girls or any young person is exploited and a…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 1997
No decent American or anyone else is going to turn the other way as young girls or any young person is exploited and a contract is not honored, or someone is being forced into a life style like the gentleman is suggesting. But what I am saying here is the reason the Northern Marianas have been targeted, unlike New York City, which we have heard about just from our last speaker before I got up, is because the Northern Marianas, unlike other island possessions, are taking a free enterprise approach to development. It is increasing the standard of living of their people. Even the guest workers are better off than if they had no job at all.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

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Discussing the economic development and labor conditions in the Northern Marianas.

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