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Sheldon Whitehouse: “Some of it smells to high heaven and was snuck in by lobbyists at midnight and has real--I mean, it is the kind of thing…”

On the recordApril 26, 2016
Some of it smells to high heaven and was snuck in by lobbyists at midnight and has real--I mean, it is the kind of thing that makes people go out and get mad as hell in the voting booth. And we should clean it up. It is a swamp.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Criticism of certain tax expenditures influenced by lobbyists.

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