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On the recordFebruary 3, 2014
What concerns me is that that passion and that militancy and that determination evaporates as soon as you are talking about benefits that go out to wealthy folks and to corporations through the Tax Code.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse highlights hypocrisy in addressing debt versus corporate tax benefits.

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