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On the recordJune 18, 2013
There was money sitting there to produce, and there was the yearning urge to acquire that taxpayers' dollar maybe too quickly.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin comments on the urgency to spend taxpayer money on production.

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