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On the recordDecember 11, 2019
Reject this cynical view that the drug companies will punish consumers before they will restrain some of the excesses if we finally take back part of the monopoly powers that the Republicans gave to the pharmaceutical industry.
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Earl Blumenauer
Democratic · Oregon
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Dec 11, 2019

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