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Ron Wyden: “If you were standing up in front of a town hall meeting in rural Oregon and you said that.”

On the recordJuly 8, 2009
If you were standing up in front of a town hall meeting in rural Oregon and you said that.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden highlights the disconnect between policy and rural community needs.

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