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On the recordFebruary 13, 2003
we tell the poor to get a job; and as jobs are drying up, we cut off their benefits. We call for the poor to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and then deny them boots. Some of my colleagues think that God loves the poor, he made so many of them. But we must make God's work truly our own. I urge Members to vote for the Mink substitute.
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Dennis Kucinich
Independent · Ohio

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Addressing poverty and social welfare during a debate on legislation.

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