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Byron Dorgan: “Let us decide to have a backbone, a spine, some stiffness of spirit here, and stand up for the wheat producers in this…”

On the recordMay 8, 2003
Let us decide to have a backbone, a spine, some stiffness of spirit here, and stand up for the wheat producers in this country.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota
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congress.gov
May 8, 2003

Editor's note · Context

Dorgan urges action to support American wheat producers.

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