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Karen Thurman: No. No. And therein itself is a perfect issue as it comes to the defense issue, because now we are wondering how we are…

On the recordJuly 18, 2000
No. No. And therein itself is a perfect issue as it comes to the defense issue, because now we are wondering how we are going to continue to keep things rolling and not have some kind of an emergency on funding because of the gas price issue that we are dealing with. Mr. Greenspan and others have been before our committee several times over the last couple of years and never once was it mentioned that we potentially would have the prices of gas go up as they have. Hopefully, they are coming down; but, in fact, they have gone up. No, it is a serious problem.
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Karen Thurman
Democratic · Florida

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Discussing the impact of rising gas prices on defense funding.

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