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Tom Carper: “Let us just focus on the 80 percent that we agree on, and we will set the other 20 percent aside until another day.”

On the recordFebruary 11, 2014
Let us just focus on the 80 percent that we agree on, and we will set the other 20 percent aside until another day.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper advocates for bipartisan cooperation on issues where there is agreement.

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