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Ron Wyden: “There are people with a theological, I would describe it, commitment to the old-fashioned mode who cannot see their way…”

On the recordJune 24, 2015
There are people with a theological, I would describe it, commitment to the old-fashioned mode who cannot see their way clear to anything that is not government-owned, government-built, and government-operated all the way through
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden criticizes those committed to traditional government-operated solutions.

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