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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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