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Steve Pearce: So the big guys get protected, and the lawyers get 500 bucks an hour, and we spend about a billion bucks.

On the recordMarch 6, 2012
So the big guys get protected, and the lawyers get 500 bucks an hour, and we spend about a billion bucks.
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Steve Pearce
New Mexico

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Pearce criticized the protection of larger claimants over smaller ones in financial claims.

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