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Steve King: “We have got to stand up at some point and say, we're not going to pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress.…”

On the recordNovember 30, 2010
We have got to stand up at some point and say, we're not going to pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress. That war's been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood, and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees especially.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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Steve King argues against payments for slavery reparations in Congress.

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