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On the recordJuly 29, 2003
Is it not also, I say through the Chair, that the administration is proposing spending $8 million of taxpayer money through the year 2005 in creating this marketplace to trade in speculation about assassination and terrorism, $8 million over the next several years?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Questioning the administration's proposed spending on a marketplace for speculation on assassination and terrorism.

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