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On the recordMay 31, 2012
If corporations were so powerful they would have cut the corporate tax rate and they would have done all other kinds of things to benefit them.
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Chuck Edwards
Republican · North Dakota

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Edwards challenges the notion that corporations dominate Washington, citing high corporate tax rates.

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