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John Garamendi: “Exactly right. Twenty-two million children living in poverty, not knowing where their next meal is going to come from.…”

On the recordSeptember 14, 2011
Exactly right. Twenty-two million children living in poverty, not knowing where their next meal is going to come from. At the same time, they're cutting the food programs. This is our program. This is the President's program. Every one of the things that is in the American Jobs Act is here. Taxes. There are tax breaks for businesses. And this entire program is paid for by ending the giveaway of our tax money to the oil companies. That's $4 billion a year--$40 billion over the next decade--of our tax money going to support the oil industry, the wealthiest industry in this world.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Sep 14, 2011

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