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Dick Durbin: “I commend the leader for his statement this morning and ask him the following: If the Bush administration is now telling…”

On the recordFebruary 11, 2004
I commend the leader for his statement this morning and ask him the following: If the Bush administration is now telling us that tax cuts for the wealthy are good for America, if they are now telling us that outsourcing jobs from the United States to other countries is good for America, and they are now cutting overtime pay for American workers and refusing to give unemployed workers in our country the benefits they need to keep their families together, I would like to ask the Senator from South Dakota and our leader on the Democratic side if he believes this is the right economic policy to move America forward out of this recession and into prosperity?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the economic policies of the Bush administration during a Senate floor debate.

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