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On the recordMay 30, 2023
Do the other panelists agree that putting everyone, all these ag workers, under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act would make sense as opposed to having two regimes?
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii

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Hirono questions the need for unified labor protections for agricultural workers.

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