Sen. Bob Casey Suggests ‘We Should Give the Federal Government the Power’ to Control Prices

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CASEY: "Well, it's really not the grocery store level. This is at the corporate level, Willie. They've been making record profits. We’ve never seen the kinds of profits in corporate America  the last couple of years. And when they're doing that, they are bragging about increasing prices. So my point is that we should give the federal government the power to investigate just run-of-the-mill price gouging and give the people an opportunity to fight back against it. As I said, if they are not engaged in corporate price gouging, they have nothing to worry about. But this is, I think, long overdue. People are tired of just accepting higher prices.”