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Sheila Jackson Lee: I tried to buy tuna as a test case, and I had to put it back on the shelf of a little 2 by 4 in neighborhoods where…

On the recordJune 14, 2011
I tried to buy tuna as a test case, and I had to put it back on the shelf of a little 2 by 4 in neighborhoods where people walk. Be reminded that Calvin Coolidge, a Republican President, followed in the 1920s the same pattern, which is: give to the rich and let the poor die on the vine. He didn't run again because he knew there was a collapse coming. His fellow Republican elected said, Give to the rich. And we had the 1928 collapse. We're talking about where consumers and businesses are not buying or having business, we the government must invest. And I believe, in the name of Mickey Leland, we've got to do a better job of feeding the hungry. {time} 1310
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas
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Jun 14, 2011

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