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John Sarbanes: Exactly. These people, in effect, will fall off the cliff, and they are hard-working people. They would not have gotten…

On the recordMay 23, 2003
Exactly. These people, in effect, will fall off the cliff, and they are hard-working people. They would not have gotten the unemployment benefits to begin with if they had not had a job record, I say to the able Senator from New York.
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland

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Discussing the impact of unemployment benefits on hard-working individuals.

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