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Luis Gutiérrez: “Absolutely. Look, every day their profits are $62 million a day. Let's remember that. How much could it possibly cost…”

On the recordMay 17, 2010
Absolutely. Look, every day their profits are $62 million a day. Let's remember that. How much could it possibly cost them so that they will know? How do you plan for the future? How do you take -- how do you plan contingencies for the damage if you do not know what is going on today?
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Luis Gutiérrez
Democratic · Illinois

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Gutierrez emphasizes the need for BP to understand the damage caused by the oil leak in order to plan for the future.

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