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On the recordApril 4, 2022
Shouldn't there be a way that the banks and insurance companies should move forward, now that some have disclosed, and those that we are going to encourage to disclose, to do its own reparations?
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters questions the responsibility of banks and insurance companies for reparations.

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