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On the recordFebruary 5, 2014
What has bothered a lot of people in this country for a long time, that when you enforce something and people pay huge fines--huge--and they do it without admitting any wrongdoing, either criminal or civil, you know, sometimes.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Senator Shelby expresses concern over fines without admissions of wrongdoing.

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