Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

If you look at what happened in early 2010 that might explain why it suddenly ended, you find a Supreme Court decision called Citizens United that allowed unlimited corporate money, unlimited billionaire money to bombard our politics.

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Senator Whitehouse links the decline of bipartisan climate action to the Citizens United decision.

07/22/2014

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