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On the recordMarch 10, 2009
Despite the deficit the debt and the dire economic circumstances that exist in this country today we have the opportunity in this budget to right the wrongs of hundreds of years of unequal treatment of racial and ethnic minorities, women, rural and territorial Americans.
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Bobby Scott
Democratic · Virginia

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Scott emphasizes the budget's potential to address historical inequalities.

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