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Ben Ray Luján: “The heavy, heavy hand of government was taking away those…”

Featuring: Ben Ray Luján, Democratic | U.S. Senate New Mexico

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It's a concept that my Democrat colleagues over the last four years lost sight of. They said all of the above. They said we want to give consumers choice. But in reality, The heavy, heavy hand of government was taking away those choices. And I just want to be incredibly clear that from your perspective, this is not about mandating or driving America towards the point in time in which the only people … (06:08–06:13)

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Asserts that government actions were limiting consumer choices in the automobile market.

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