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Bill Delahunt: One hundred fifty thousand dollars. Not every 10 years. Not every 5 years. Not every year. Not every month. But every…

On the recordApril 25, 2006
One hundred fifty thousand dollars. Not every 10 years. Not every 5 years. Not every year. Not every month. But every single day as long as he lives, $150,000. The pension package, according to newspaper reports, Madam Speaker, was $600 million. That is for one person. For one person. This is a moral issue. This is a moral issue. There are people that are having difficulty, they are working hard, but they are having difficulty making it, and yet there is a CEO who runs a corporation that earns $39 billion in a single year. And he has a pension of $600 million that provides him with $150,000 a day. Is that right, or is that wrong?
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

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