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“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordDecember 12, 2011
You know, what flummoxes us is how there can be $1 billion or thereabouts missing and nobody seems to know where it has gone.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota
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Conrad expresses confusion over missing funds in a company.

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