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Kirsten Gillibrand: “Well, they used to be able to provide banking and did it for a very long time, decades and decades.”

On the recordJuly 17, 2018
Well, they used to be able to provide banking and did it for a very long time, decades and decades.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

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Gillibrand discusses the historical role of the post office in providing banking services.

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