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On the recordFebruary 3, 2014
We want to see a growing economy that helps workers find jobs, that ends flat wages and reducing wages and creates naturally through the process of free enterprise higher wages for American workers.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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Grassley emphasizes the need for economic growth to improve wages.

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