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On the recordMay 31, 2011
Gentlemen, let me suggest to you that unions subsidize, subsidize the Federal Government through the duties they carry out as a consequence of achieving the right to organize.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings argues that unions provide benefits to the Federal Government.

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