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On the recordJanuary 27, 2010
I just want to push back a little bit against what I thought was your implied theory that this would be something novel or peculiar if we allowed this to happen.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse argues against the notion that restoring bankruptcy access is a novel idea.

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