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Ted Yoho: How can you do that when over 70 percent of the population is below poverty? They don't have a voice.

On the recordMay 20, 2014
How can you do that when over 70 percent of the population is below poverty? They don't have a voice.
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Ted Yoho
Republican · Florida

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Yoho questions how democracy can function amid widespread poverty in Nigeria.

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