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On the recordMay 18, 2009
This is bad economic and legal policy. It gives excessively short shrift to consumer preferences, the supposed driving force behind the market.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Condemnation of the economic implications of the Supreme Court's RPM decision.

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