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Mary Gay Scanlon: I think I have one more speaker. I am finding the argument a little bit hard to follow for my colleagues across the…

On the recordJune 29, 2021
I think I have one more speaker. I am finding the argument a little bit hard to follow for my colleagues across the aisle because, as I understand it, it was a bad thing to shut down businesses in the U.S. to protect people when there was a virus rampant here. But we have to shut down the border because there is a virus rampant here. It is just a little hard to follow the logic sometimes. If the gentleman is prepared to close, then I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 1315
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Mary Gay Scanlon
Democratic · Pennsylvania
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Jun 29, 2021

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