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Steny Hoyer: “The reason Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan were able to do something which funded Social Security and made it stable for a…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2019
The reason Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan were able to do something which funded Social Security and made it stable for a lot of years was because they held hands.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

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Hoyer references historical bipartisan efforts to highlight the importance of collaboration.

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