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Amy Klobuchar: “I come at this, first of all, as someone who was in private practice for 14 years representing a number of different…”

On the recordMay 10, 2011
I come at this, first of all, as someone who was in private practice for 14 years representing a number of different private phone companies and arguing that competition was really good for the market and that it would-- both the local market and the long-distance market, that it bring prices down, which in many cases it has.
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

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Klobuchar shares her background and views on competition's benefits.

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