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On the recordJune 6, 2017
How is it in a democratically elected institution where we decided to invest Federal taxpayer dollars in infrastructure projects, just tell me how that is communism.
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Chris Van Hollen
Democratic · Maryland

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Van Hollen challenges Vought's characterization of federal infrastructure spending as communism.

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