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Jeff Merkley: “To my colleague from Rhode Island, I ask this: How is it possible for 5 members of the Supreme Court to look at this…”

On the recordJuly 16, 2012
To my colleague from Rhode Island, I ask this: How is it possible for 5 members of the Supreme Court to look at this issue of unlimited, secret spending and knowing that can be used to intimidate and corrupt the electoral process and corrupt the debate by the threat of future activities, future secret activities, secret negative, lying activity, and not see the corruptive or corrosive effect on the American democracy?
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon
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Jul 16, 2012

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