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On the recordJanuary 23, 2018
I will just close by saying that our children are now financing the biggest theft of money delivered to the wealthy in America, and this is what you normally see in corrupt, irresponsible, Third World governments, not the United States of America.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley criticizes wealth inequality and likens it to corruption in Third World countries.

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