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Ron Wyden: “This thing they did in 1999 was kind of a welfare program and it was supposed to phase out. That is not accurate.”

On the recordMay 1, 2017
This thing they did in 1999 was kind of a welfare program and it was supposed to phase out. That is not accurate.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden defends the original intent of the 1999 program against misconceptions.

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