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.
On the recordMay 4, 2006
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Senator Durbin criticizes Congress for inadequate responses to rising gas prices.
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