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On the recordSeptember 29, 2021
The Republicans, the other side of the aisle, they love to talk about life, but they talk about life in what I call the bookends of a person's life--their birth and their death--but they really don't pay much attention to the life that occurs in between.
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Jimmy Gomez
Democratic · California

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Criticism of Republicans for focusing only on birth and death, ignoring life in between.

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