Cory Booker: “This is a program that affects 45 million people.”

“We have hearings in this committee with farmers, we have hearings with this committee with cattlemen. We have hearings with government officials. There's an old saying in my community that says nothing about us. Without us, This is a program that affects 45 million people. Let's let the beneficiaries come in here before we go after what they're talking about. Ask them what it's like filling out the bureaucracy. Find out the real facts.” (12:50–12:53)

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