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Dick Durbin: “You cannot solve a problem by throwing money at it unless the problem is lack of money.”

On the recordJanuary 22, 2013
You cannot solve a problem by throwing money at it unless the problem is lack of money.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin argues that money alone cannot solve certain problems.

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