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Dick Durbin: “Forty-one percent of them take cuts in pay. We're now going to enact a new bankruptcy bill, which will make it tougher…”

On the recordFebruary 16, 2005
Forty-one percent of them take cuts in pay. We're now going to enact a new bankruptcy bill, which will make it tougher for those who lose their businesses and have to file bankruptcy because they've been deployed for 1 year or 2 years.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
Source
congress.gov
Feb 16, 2005

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Durbin highlights financial struggles faced by deployed service members due to new bankruptcy legislation.

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