I am going to do everything in my power to make sure that every American I come in contact with is aware that a few special interests that have negligible impact, really, on them, but they have this Nation in their grip, people are dying and starving--dying and starving--because of this national disgrace of corporate welfare that is totally unnecessary, totally unnecessary to the beneficiaries.
Cardin emphasizes the urgency of addressing corporate welfare affecting Americans' well-being.
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