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On the recordMarch 2, 2016
Under this loophole--make no mistake about it--economics trumped human rights, and Senator Brown and I said that was wrong, that it was just 100-percent wrong.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden criticizes a trade loophole that allowed imports made with slave labor.

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