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On the recordDecember 13, 2012
It's only a few, like Sheldon Adelson, the Koch brothers, who want to control the public policy apparatus. They want to control government so that they can have government to make them more money. That's all they're interested in is themselves, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Hank Johnson
Democratic · Georgia

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