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On the recordMarch 19, 2012
You need to understand the awkward position it puts me in. I have people in North Mississippi that are spending $4 a gallon to get back and forth to work, and they are struggling. And they get their paycheck, and withheld from their paycheck are Federal income taxes, and that goes to pay companies that pay multimillion dollar bonuses that declare bankruptcy.
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Alan Nunnelee
Mississippi

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Nunnelee expresses concern about constituents struggling while taxpayer money supports failing companies.

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