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Pat Roberts: “To be perfectly blunt, the rule as proposed looked like a trial lawyer's full employment act.”

On the recordJune 27, 2011
To be perfectly blunt, the rule as proposed looked like a trial lawyer's full employment act.
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Pat Roberts
Republican · Kansas

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Roberts criticizes the proposed rule as benefiting trial lawyers.

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