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Lisa Murkowski: “Yet your dividend that goes to each household would be the same in Alaska as New York, and if I'm paying eight bucks a…”

On the recordOctober 20, 2009
Yet your dividend that goes to each household would be the same in Alaska as New York, and if I'm paying eight bucks a gallon in Alaska and I'm paying two bucks in New York----
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski highlights the disparity in dividend value between states.

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