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On the recordMay 29, 2014
I would like to know if anybody in this body can answer the question and tell the surviving husband, the surviving wife, a 10-year-old child who lost their father to a failed Federal policy, how many of those agents would be alive today if it were not for the failed Federal policy on prohibition. Does anybody have an answer? I thought that might be the case, Mr. Chair.
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Jared Polis
Democratic · Colorado

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