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Carl Levin: “America stands on the edge of a fiscal cliff, and this challenge lends new urgency to a topic that this Subcommittee has…”

On the recordSeptember 19, 2012
America stands on the edge of a fiscal cliff, and this challenge lends new urgency to a topic that this Subcommittee has long investigated.
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

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Levin emphasizes the urgency of addressing tax avoidance by corporations amid fiscal challenges.

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