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Sherrod Brown: “I was on the phone today listening to people call in from Ohio, taking calls. I heard so many people very afraid of the…”

On the recordJuly 30, 2011
I was on the phone today listening to people call in from Ohio, taking calls. I heard so many people very afraid of the Boehner legislation and what might come out of a further compromise. Senator Reid, as the Senator said, has offered a good many cuts and doing this in a way that is bipartisan. Is the Senator hearing that in her State there is a real fear that the Republicans in the House are insisting on Social Security and Medicare cuts and what that would mean to people in her State?
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio
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Jul 30, 2011

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