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Patrick Kennedy: just to answer the lady about walking the walk and talking the talk, this administration and this Congress just cut…

On the recordJuly 27, 2005
just to answer the lady about walking the walk and talking the talk, this administration and this Congress just cut child labor enforcement around the world by 87 percent in our dollars that we contribute to the international labor organization. So on the one hand for people to say that we are really strengthening labor law, but on the other hand not putting the dollars behind it to make sure children are protected to me does not sound like we are walking the walk that we are so talking the talk.
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Patrick Kennedy
Rhode Island

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