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Al Franken on Welfare & Poverty

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Guarantee the retirement benefits our workers have earned

Companies with defined benefit pension plans should be required to fund those plans fully. And if they go bankrupt, they should be forced to meet their obligations to those plans with their first available dollars.
Source: Campaign website, www.AlFranken.com, "Issues" May 14, 2008

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