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Dick Durbin: “What does $100 buy you? Two tanks of gas, if you're lucky? Is that the best we can do in Washington, D.C., and then say…”

On the recordMay 4, 2006
What does $100 buy you? Two tanks of gas, if you're lucky? Is that the best we can do in Washington, D.C., and then say adios, voters, see you in November? We've taken care of the problem? Well, we certainly have not.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Senator Durbin criticizes Congress for inadequate responses to rising gas prices.

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