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Muriel Bowser: “The people of Washington, D.C. saw what can happen when we have nobody arguing for us in the Senate in the CARES…”

On the recordMarch 22, 2021
The people of Washington, D.C. saw what can happen when we have nobody arguing for us in the Senate in the CARES package. We were shorted $750 million, three quarters of a billion dollars, to respond to a global pandemic. That is what it means to not be represented in the Senate.
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Muriel Bowser
Democratic · District of Columbia
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Bowser discusses the financial impact of D.C.'s lack of representation during the pandemic.

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