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On the recordMay 31, 2023
If you say there's enough American workers to make agriculture work in America, you don't know what you're talking about.
Said by
Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Critiquing the belief that American workers alone can sustain agriculture.

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