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On the recordJanuary 22, 2012
If you do agree with these decades-long principles and understandings that big contributions directly at candidates are a bad thing and potentially corrupting that these super PACs put us right back to the pre-Watergate era with that potential for corruption.
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Paul Ryan
Republican · Wisconsin

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Paul Ryan warns about the potential for corruption due to super PACs.

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