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On the recordOctober 3, 2017
The air is poisoned, asthma rates, lead poisoning rates, the water is poisoned because corporations, pressing their hand and their power and their money, have been able to poison communities to the extent that you have autism rates, birth defects, cancers in our children in places in this country that are unconscionable.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper criticizes corporate influence on public health and environmental safety.

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