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Christopher Shays: “I do not think I have done a special order this entire session, but I am doing one tonight because I feel very strongly…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2004
I do not think I have done a special order this entire session, but I am doing one tonight because I feel very strongly about an issue, and that is the Oil-for-Food Program. And my subcommittee is working, as is the Committee on International Relations, on the whole issue of oil for food and the outrageous rip-off, probably the biggest rip-off in the history of rip-offs, the $10 billion plus events over the course of many years that Saddam was involved in.
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Christopher Shays
Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the Oil-for-Food Program and its implications during a special order.

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