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Lisa Murkowski: “Not coming from a farm or an agriculture State, I think the common person would look at this and can't believe that…”

On the recordMarch 15, 2011
Not coming from a farm or an agriculture State, I think the common person would look at this and can't believe that we're having a conversation that we would be regulating milk as an oil product and need to have some kind of a response plan.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski expresses disbelief over regulating milk as an oil product.

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