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If a corporation is large enough, it should just be allowed to break the law.

That's the message of H.R. 2597, a bill voted out of the House Education and Workforce Committee last week. With the rest of Washington caught in tumultuous negotiations over public debt and deficits that are ballooning as a result of a recession caused by Wall Street recklessness and a lack of public oversight, you might imagine that making it even easier for corporations to escape accountability would be low on the agenda. Yet the legislation, sponsored by Representative Tim Scott of South Carolina, would do just that, blocking an agency that protects the rights of working people from taking action to enforce the law.

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