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Bill Delahunt: But what about the other 80 percent? What about the middle class in America? It is really about the middle class…

On the recordMarch 3, 1998
But what about the other 80 percent? What about the middle class in America? It is really about the middle class, because if we do not have a viable middle class, the poor and the disadvantaged have nowhere to go but even further down. So what we are talking about is a global commerce, an international trade where the American people, through its Congress and through its President, write the new rules, the new rules that will encourage trade, but where every single American and people all over the world will benefit, not just a few.
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

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Addressing the importance of the middle class in relation to global commerce and trade.

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