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On the recordApril 9, 2003
To specific industries. So under the standard that an unemployment extension for airline industries is, and I quote: 'unfair and potentially harmful because it provides benefits for a specific industry, and by the same standard, trade adjustment assistance would be.'
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Patty Murray
Democratic · Washington
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congress.gov
Apr 9, 2003

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Murray argues that trade adjustment assistance is similarly unfair.

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