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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 recordApril 26, 2023
I think it is hard to argue 40, 50, 60 percent contingency.
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana
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Tester discusses the difficulty of justifying certain contingency percentages.

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