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Jimmy Gomez: “If we care about the true spirit of the states as laboratories for policies that we could potentially make and adopt on…”

On the recordOctober 28, 2019
If we care about the true spirit of the states as laboratories for policies that we could potentially make and adopt on a Federal level, than California, I believe, is fully realizing the spirit of that idea.
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Jimmy Gomez
Democratic · California

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Gomez emphasizes California's role in innovative policy-making at the federal level.

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