In Heller's world, new cures for Alzheimer's remain in the lab, films flounder unreleased and even hip-hop albums go unrecorded because it's simply too hard to buy off all the owners who are in a blocking position with their pesky property rights.

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The issue is, how do I persuade the Republicans in the Senate who are currently blocking that position.

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