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" Regulators owned and controlled by industry are not the American way. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Way
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" America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over, we do exceptional things - things like what Generals Marshall and MacArthur accomplished putting Europe and Japan back on their feet after World War II. "
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