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Bill Delahunt: “Is it not absolutely critical that whatever we talk about in terms of our own responsibility, it is to ensure that those…”

On the recordMarch 3, 1998
Is it not absolutely critical that whatever we talk about in terms of our own responsibility, it is to ensure that those standards that were created, as the gentleman said, through struggle and toil, stay the same so that we continue to have a healthy middle class that really sets us apart as a healthy democracy?
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

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Discussing the importance of maintaining standards for a healthy middle class.

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