But when your prices are going like this and your costs are staying here, it's not just corporate profiteering, it's gouging. And the good news here is the people of many states, Virtually every state has given state attorneys general the power to do price gouging investigations. We don't have a similar power at the national level. And that's what we're trying to remedy with this price gouging bill. The problem is we don't have any Republicans helping us. (03:10–03:24)
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Asserts that most states empower their attorneys general to investigate price gouging.
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