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On the recordApril 4, 2017
And the fact of the matter is, those people who lost their homes and jobs, et cetera, they were not just minorities; they were not just people from urban America; they were not people just from rural America; they were not people just from the east, the west, the north or the south; they were all Americans.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks emphasizes that the financial crisis affected all Americans, regardless of background.

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