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Madeleine Bordallo: “This is not a fault of anybody who put these laws together way back in 1937.”

On the recordMay 21, 2018
This is not a fault of anybody who put these laws together way back in 1937.
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Madeleine Bordallo
Democratic · Guam

Editor's note · Context

Bordallo addresses historical context of funding laws affecting territories.

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