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Bernie Sanders: “One-sixth of the American economy is over $3 trillion every single year. Now, when we are dealing with legislation that…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2017
One-sixth of the American economy is over $3 trillion every single year. Now, when we are dealing with legislation that impacts virtually every American, over $3 trillion every year, would my friend from Oregon please tell me this--and I know that he is the ranking member of the Finance Committee, and I am on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee: How many hearings have been held in the Finance Committee to discuss the economic implications of this legislation? Were there five, ten? How many hearings on this enormously complicated and important issue have there been?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont
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Jul 26, 2017

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