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On the recordMarch 16, 2015
I am just a little sick and tired of hearing rhetoric around here that if we give aid to farmers and we give aid to veterans and we give aid to senior citizens, those are benefits. But if we give aid to single moms trying to pay for rent and food, that is welfare.
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Sam Farr
Democratic · California

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Farr criticizes the double standard in how aid is labeled based on the recipients.

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