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Tom Rice: If you talk about reducing the outgo, cutting people's benefits, you make that population angry.

On the recordSeptember 20, 2016
If you talk about reducing the outgo, cutting people's benefits, you make that population angry.
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Tom Rice
Republican · South Carolina

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Discussing the political challenges of addressing Social Security funding.

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