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On the recordOctober 16, 2012
When Governor Romney was asked a directed -- a question about equal pay, he started talking about binders. Whoa. The idea he had to go and ask where a qualified woman was, he just should have come to my house. He didn't need a binder.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Joe Biden criticized Mitt Romney's comments about needing binders to find qualified women for positions, suggesting that Romney should have known qualified women personally.

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