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Virginia Foxx: It seems to me that there is always the assumption on the other side of the aisle that the private sector is made up of…

On the recordSeptember 25, 2019
It seems to me that there is always the assumption on the other side of the aisle that the private sector is made up of a bunch of crooks and that all they want to do is abuse people.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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Foxx defends the honesty of the private sector against assumptions of wrongdoing.

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