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On the recordApril 24, 2013
Is it right, is it fair, would it be just for us to say to a working family, to a middle-class family that we are going to snatch the rug from under you?
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James A. Lewis
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Lewis questions the fairness of policies affecting middle-class families.

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