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Mark Souder: One of the similarities that the gentleman is starting to run into, because you have clearly proven from the statements…

On the recordSeptember 14, 1998
One of the similarities that the gentleman is starting to run into, because you have clearly proven from the statements that you have made and from the indictments, that there was corruption inside the Teamsters election; in fact, that election was overturned. Now we are trying to see where their money moved elsewhere, and the larger question that you are moving into, in addition to that, and it is bad enough, I mean, I have talked to irate truck drivers in Fort Wayne who cannot believe that their own leadership would do this, but then the larger question is, like we saw in the Interior Department, like we have seen in agency after agency, who is running what looks like a large scale, coordinated effort, to find millions of dollars for campaigns in all sorts of illegal behaviors?
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Mark Souder
Indiana

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Addressing corruption in the Teamsters election and broader issues of campaign finance misconduct.

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