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Jack Kingston: “Mr. Chairman, I do not know if there is anybody opposed to this or not. I hope this is a constructive amendment. All it…”

On the recordJune 27, 2000
Mr. Chairman, I do not know if there is anybody opposed to this or not. I hope this is a constructive amendment. All it simply asks is that the Office of Inspector General give us a study of the economic basis of the recent gasoline price increases, and this is just because we are not exactly sure what all caused the increases from the $1.20 range as high as the $2.80 per-gallon range. And that is all we are trying to do, not fingerpoint.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Proposing an amendment for a study on the economic basis of recent gasoline price increases.

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