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On the recordJanuary 19, 1995
The gentlewoman is not suggesting that the patriotic billionaires in Mexico are not going to themselves reinvest in their own country? She is not suggesting that they might take their own money out of their own country and put that money into American banks so that the working people of the United States who are losing jobs because our jobs are being taken to Mexico should bail out these investors and these big banks? The gentlewoman is not suggesting that, is she?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Questioning the economic implications of investment practices related to Mexico.

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