"We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities."

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"We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities."

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"We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities."

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"In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington."

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