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On the recordJune 9, 2010
Forty-one cents. So 41 cents would represent, as I calculate it, one-half of 1 percent of the current cost of a barrel of oil.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 9, 2010

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Senator Durbin discusses the cost implications related to oil prices.

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