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Cory Booker: “I saw this in Newark first-hand, the devastating and challenging detrimental impacts of lead poisoning on our kids.”

On the recordMarch 16, 2015
I saw this in Newark first-hand, the devastating and challenging detrimental impacts of lead poisoning on our kids.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker shares personal experience with the effects of lead poisoning on children.

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