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Henry Hyde: “But it really cuts both ways, and I believe it started on the other side with our camaraderie with corporate America and…”

On the recordMarch 8, 1995
But it really cuts both ways, and I believe it started on the other side with our camaraderie with corporate America and the economic royalists and all that tone was set, that they were our friends and we were doing this because they were telling us to do it. I agree with the gentleman, let us dispense with that line of argument on both sides.
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Henry Hyde
Illinois

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Discussing the relationship between political parties and corporate interests.

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