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Dick Durbin: “And the price of a barrel of oil, as of this morning's Wall Street Journal, is $71.99 a barrel?”

On the recordJune 9, 2010
And the price of a barrel of oil, as of this morning's Wall Street Journal, is $71.99 a barrel?
Said by
Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
Source
govinfo.gov
Jun 9, 2010

Editor's note · Context

Senator Durbin is discussing the current price of oil.

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