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Sherrod Brown: “It's up to Congress not to help with that. It's up to…”

Featuring: Sherrod Brown, Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Ohio

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Published | Video Starts at 17:33

But the richest people, most powerful people in the country, maybe in the world, they never have enough. They are in power. They never have enough money. And It's up to Congress not to help with that. It's up to Congress to change direction. And this Senate, in this House with people like John Newstedt, just feed into those special interests by giving them more and more and more and more. (17:33–17:39)

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Asserts that Congress should not support the interests of the wealthy and should change direction.

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