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Bill Foster: “We're talking about spending, you know, 1/10,000 of the increase in, you know, the U.S. wealth.”

On the recordMarch 5, 2018
We're talking about spending, you know, 1/10,000 of the increase in, you know, the U.S. wealth.
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Bill Foster
Democratic · Illinois

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Bill Foster advocates for funding energy projects as a small fraction of national wealth growth.

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