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Robert C. Byrd: “What kind of message does an administration policy of inaction and indifference send to the American workers-the…”

On the recordOctober 18, 1986
What kind of message does an administration policy of inaction and indifference send to the American workers-the steelworkers, the farmers, the coal miners, the glassworkers, the chemical workers, the shoe workers, the leather goods workers, the textile workers?
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Oct 18, 1986

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Criticizing the lack of trade legislation.

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