05/21/2019
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"I sponsored legislation here in Congress several years ago to remove OxyContin from the market."
"But, let's face it, there are so many drug company lobbyists up here that that bill didn't have a prayer, because the pharmaceutical company lobbyists outnumber Members of Congress probably 7 to 1."
"You would think from the discussion here today that maybe 50 percent, 60 percent, 70 percent of today's workers are unionized."
"It is bizarre, it is obscene in a way, that folks go to work every day sometimes in dangerous industries, and because of the lack of protections, they don't come home."