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On the recordFebruary 3, 2016
And when I hear about stories like this from my constituents in the Eighth Congressional District, and then I hear about $200,000 bonuses for executives at a pharmaceutical company that purposely shut down distribution of a lifesaving drug so that they could make that money, it disgusts me. It is absolutely disgusting.
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Tammy Duckworth
Democratic · Illinois

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Duckworth expresses outrage over pharmaceutical executives' bonuses amid drug shortages.

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