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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Thank you for your generosity. What we are saying, I want to underscore what we are saying when we say we are not…

On the recordApril 25, 2006
Thank you for your generosity. What we are saying, I want to underscore what we are saying when we say we are not opposed to profit, because that profit we had up there a minute ago, if it happened and the oil companies were being asked to pay their fair share, if they were paying the royalties and the taxes that they are supposed to be under the law to the Federal Government for the rights to drill, you know what? You can't begrudge them the profits, because that is the free market system. But they are not. They are being given these oil rights for free, for no remuneration or very little remuneration whatsoever. And they don't need it. They are not struggling. Far from it. The people who are struggling now are Americans who need to go to work, who need to get their kids to school.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

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