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Charles Rangel: one may wonder how germane is it when we are considering a bill that 7,500 families will be the beneficiary at the cost…

On the recordJune 22, 2006
one may wonder how germane is it when we are considering a bill that 7,500 families will be the beneficiary at the cost of $800 billion, as opposed to what I am raising in the motion to recommit, and that is the lives of 6.6 million working people that really are working at the minimum wage. So there is a difference in how we perceive what we are doing today, whether the hundreds of million of people that work every day should be sacrificed at a cost of close to $1 trillion when, in fact, we are talking about 7,500 families that have not worked for the money but are going to inherit the money. parliamentary inquiry
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Charles Rangel
Democratic · New York

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