PHILADELPHIA — Former Vice President Joe Biden defends his support for the 1994 crime bill that many blame for mass incarceration of blacks. He declares that most Americans are "satisfied" with a private insurance system reviled by the left. He justifies the North American Free Trade Agreement as a pact that "made sense at the...
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