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Jamie Raskin: “It's easy to feel outrage about the misdeeds of this corporation, but what about our government that gives license to…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2020
It's easy to feel outrage about the misdeeds of this corporation, but what about our government that gives license to this kind of corporate irresponsibility and criminality and impunity?
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Raskin criticizes government complicity in corporate wrongdoing regarding the opioid crisis.

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