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Bill Delahunt: It was not the expensive boat ride. But I think really what that particular statistic does really talks to what we are…

On the recordMarch 3, 1998
It was not the expensive boat ride. But I think really what that particular statistic does really talks to what we are about, which was fair trade. We ought to have probably a picture of the car that was produced here, produced in Atlanta, Georgia, just to remind the American people that that car was $20,000 here in the United States and $45,000 in Japan.
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

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Discussing fair trade and price differences of cars produced in the U.S. and Japan.

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