But I like to think that some of the bills I'm passing are at least helping teachers like me and students like mine. That's beautiful. It's beautiful that you made that decision. And I think that's what we need. We need people that have legitimate, personal, real life experience with other people that are benefiting from certain social programs and certain things that should not be cut. I think there's too many wealthy people that are just very disengaged with everyone else. And that's a real concern. (1:25:02–1:25:13)
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Asserts the need for policymakers with real-life experience to protect social programs.
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