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Sherrod Brown: “As the gentleman was talking, I am thinking about what he said a few nights ago. There is no protection for the…”

On the recordMay 17, 2005
As the gentleman was talking, I am thinking about what he said a few nights ago. There is no protection for the environment, for workers, but there is very good protection in this bill for a group that is very powerful in this body and that is the prescription drug industry. My colleague spoke last week about what the drug industry did in Central America, what the United States Trade Rep did on behalf of the drug industry that gave them a whole lot more rights than workers get, a whole lot more protections than the environment get. Would my colleague talk a little bit about that?
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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