I think the Senator said this, but I believe it should be repeated. Is this not the same issue we have voted on before? Did the Senator from Vermont offer earlier an amendment which would have created criminal penalties for those companies which are illegally profiting from the war in Iraq? Did the Senator offer a similar amendment last year?
Dick Durbin: “I think the Senator said this, but I believe it should be repeated. Is this not the same issue we have voted on before?…”
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Questioning previous amendments related to criminal penalties for companies profiting from the Iraq war.
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