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Dick Durbin: At the moment, the sum total of those bills, if I am not mistaken, if this turns out to be $87 billion, is somewhere in…

On the recordOctober 1, 2003
At the moment, the sum total of those bills, if I am not mistaken, if this turns out to be $87 billion, is somewhere in the range of $166 billion?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the financial implications of proposed legislation.

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