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Lloyd Doggett: “We usually think everything is a little bigger and better down in Texas, but in fact the study that you referred to in…”

On the recordMarch 2, 1999
We usually think everything is a little bigger and better down in Texas, but in fact the study that you referred to in Galveston, Texas, most everybody there that was left out of Social Security. According to the objective study on it, they came out a looser; did they not?
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of Social Security exclusions in Galveston, Texas.

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