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On the recordJuly 12, 2017
History teaches us that when Congress does big things, labor law reform and Social Security with Franklin Roosevelt, in 1965 Lyndon Johnson with Medicare, the Congress 2 or 3 years later goes back to those issues bipartisanly and makes modest changes to fix them.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Brown emphasizes the need for bipartisan adjustments to major legislation over time.

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