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Tom Carper: “When I was Governor of our State and involved in the National Governors Association (NGA), we always used to say States…”

On the recordJune 13, 2012
When I was Governor of our State and involved in the National Governors Association (NGA), we always used to say States are laboratories of democracy, let us use them in that capacity.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware
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Editor's note · Context

Carper emphasizes the importance of states as experimental grounds for democracy.

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