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John Kline: “I, like my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and Americans across the country, can get pretty angry when some…”

On the recordNovember 30, 2011
I, like my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and Americans across the country, can get pretty angry when some officials, corporate officials receive extraordinarily high salaries. I'm not here to defend that. What I'm talking about here is, why would you punish the workers because the employers are paying themselves too much money? I don't think we should do that, and that's what this amendment does. It denies workers the opportunity to make an informed decision. We shouldn't be punishing those workers because executives have paid themselves too much money. I reserve the balance of my time.
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John Kline
Republican · Minnesota
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Nov 30, 2011

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