Chellie Pingree Quotes

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and cocktail parties to boot. The normal American citizen doesn't have that level of access or influence.

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The danger is that they are going to talk about a variety of proposals that will look more like window dressing than an institutional change in the way they do business.

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This is an enormous problem for our democracy and it really is at a crisis point. More and more people are looking at this level of corruption in Washington, in their home states and they're saying why should I bother to vote.

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Congress has proven beyond any doubt that it is not up to the task of policing the conduct of its own members. That's why we need strong, independent enforcement of the ethics rules by an outside commission.

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Companies get an incredible return on their investment and feel they can't stop spending the money. They're still looking for ways to influence the process, and there are still many ways to do that.

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