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On the recordMarch 22, 2021
the time is long overdue for the U.S. Congress to summon up the courage to take on perhaps the most powerful special interest in the United States, and that is the power of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Richard Burr
Republican · North Carolina

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Calls for Congress to confront the pharmaceutical industry's influence.

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