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" I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth. "

Elizabeth Warren

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" Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency. "

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" I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40. "

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