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Jeff Merkley: “We don't want to spend the next 20 years just enriching lawyers. We want to solve the problem.”

On the recordJune 19, 2013
We don't want to spend the next 20 years just enriching lawyers. We want to solve the problem.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley emphasizes the need for practical solutions over prolonged legal disputes.

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