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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordJune 5, 2012
Senator Durbin called me personally before we began here today to ask me to express his personal regret at not being able to chair this hearing today.
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware
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Coons conveys Durbin's regrets for missing the hearing.

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