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Steve King: “We go to a place like New Orleans, and everybody's looking around saying, 'Who's going to help me? Who's going to help…”

On the recordMarch 21, 2019
We go to a place like New Orleans, and everybody's looking around saying, 'Who's going to help me? Who's going to help me?'
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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Steve King compares the responses of citizens in disaster-stricken areas, using New Orleans and Iowa as examples.

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