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Jim Inhofe: “We are a farm State. We are a rural State, Oklahoma, and in Shattuck I can remember a guy, and, John, he had tears in…”

On the recordJune 13, 2017
We are a farm State. We are a rural State, Oklahoma, and in Shattuck I can remember a guy, and, John, he had tears in his eyes, and he was talking about how his farm has been in their family for so many generations and all that, but they were going to lose it.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe reflects on the impact of the death tax on family farms.

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