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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordDecember 6, 2011
If properly done, expansion of the VWP will improve our international relationships, create jobs, stimulate the economy, and, again, let me repeat, make us safer.
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Mike Quigley
Democratic · Illinois
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Quigley argues for the benefits of expanding the Visa Waiver Program.

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