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On the recordFebruary 26, 2018
I would like to touch on too when I did a series of town halls last spring we got some development underway or proposed in Oregon and some who tried to block this sort of development ridicule these jobs as temporary jobs.
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Greg Walden
Republican · Oregon

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Walden defends the importance of construction jobs against criticism of their temporary nature.

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