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Scott Peters: “Sixty-eight votes in the Senate, very bipartisan, would have provided $40 billion for border security.”

On the recordJune 25, 2019
Sixty-eight votes in the Senate, very bipartisan, would have provided $40 billion for border security.
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Scott Peters
Democratic · California

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Peters recalls a missed bipartisan opportunity for immigration reform in 2013.

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