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On the recordMarch 16, 2009
We have to really look at the source of this problem. It is our insatiable drug appetite, some 35 million users in the United States, that has created this problem and provides the money that is fueling these drug cartels and this violence.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin emphasizes the need to address America's drug consumption driving cartel violence.

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