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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordJuly 24, 2023
That seems like an old, old story that I frankly don't want to see replicated again. That seems like a dystopia, not like a new future.
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Josh Hawley
Republican · Missouri
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Hawley warns against repeating past mistakes of outsourcing and mistreating workers.

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