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Richard Blumenthal: “These relatively minuscule penalties... plainly, I think, provide an inadequate deterrent to violation-of-safety…”

On the recordJune 2, 2014
These relatively minuscule penalties... plainly, I think, provide an inadequate deterrent to violation-of-safety standards.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Critiquing the insufficient penalties for safety violations.

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