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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
Barbara Boxer
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Barbara Boxer
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: November 11
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