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On the recordApril 11, 2011
For the life of me, I do not see why in a country in which we try to give one person one vote and we try to equalize as much as we can, we allow one particular privileged class, which is the chief executive officer of a corporation, to have a thousand, a million times the weight of anybody else.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin expresses concern over corporate CEOs having disproportionate political influence.

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