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Tina Smith: This aid package... is at best a small Band-Aid on a very big wound.

On the recordSeptember 12, 2018
This aid package... is at best a small Band-Aid on a very big wound.
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Tina Smith
Democratic · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Senator Smith critiques the inadequacy of the proposed aid for farmers.

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