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On the recordNovember 18, 2008
You're talking to people that are schlepping back and forth going through all the drama in the airports every day along with the American public. My suggestion is that those types of symbolic things, they really matter.
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Peter Roskam
Republican · Illinois

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Roskam comments on the importance of the CEOs' travel choices in the context of seeking a bailout.

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