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Michael Bennet: “It is not a sufficient answer to the people we represent that things have to get worse before we fix this problem.”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2011
It is not a sufficient answer to the people we represent that things have to get worse before we fix this problem.
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Michael Bennet
Democratic · Colorado

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Bennet argues against waiting for conditions to worsen before taking action.

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