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Sheldon Whitehouse: “If we are going to go back to privatizing that as was tried a few years ago, hand that over to Wall Street”

On the recordApril 26, 2011
If we are going to go back to privatizing that as was tried a few years ago, hand that over to Wall Street
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse criticizes potential privatization of Social Security, linking it to Wall Street interests.

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