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Summer Lee: We are really talking about human lives. And I believe that we have held human lives in the balance too long.

On the recordJuly 22, 2013
We are really talking about human lives. And I believe that we have held human lives in the balance too long.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Calls attention to the human aspect of legislative issues.

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