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Barney Frank: “How do you morally justify further disadvantaging that child by denying him or her benefits? Because that's what this…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2016
How do you morally justify further disadvantaging that child by denying him or her benefits? Because that's what this bill allows.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Frank questions the morality of denying benefits to children based on parental marital status.

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