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On the recordMay 22, 2017
The name of our subcommittee, I want to remind everyone, is Workforce Protections, meaning that we should be doing our best to protect workers.
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Mark Takano
Democratic · California

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Emphasizing the subcommittee's focus on protecting workers' rights.

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