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Chellie Pingree: Nothing gets under people's skin like this idea that there are crop subsidies going out there that don't go to farmers.

On the recordMarch 4, 2014
Nothing gets under people's skin like this idea that there are crop subsidies going out there that don't go to farmers.
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Chellie Pingree
Democratic · Maine

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Pingree highlights public frustration over misallocated crop subsidies.

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