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On the recordMay 21, 2003
Mr. Pate, at the outset, I thank you for your timely intervention with the Department on a matter of significance in Pennsylvania where we had a bankruptcy sale involving a company called Carbide Graphite, and you had the matter under study and intervened in a very timely way to forestall an antitrust potential violation which resulted in the continuation of the plant and the employment of some 120 people in a small town, St. Mary's in Pennsylvania. That was, I thought, unusual, very prompt action, and we thank you for that.
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Arlen Specter
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Senator Specter praises Mr. Pate for timely intervention in an antitrust matter.

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