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Bill Delahunt: I find it particularly interesting that we are borrowing money from OPEC. Not only are we purchasing oil from OPEC, but…

On the recordFebruary 15, 2006
I find it particularly interesting that we are borrowing money from OPEC. Not only are we purchasing oil from OPEC, but we are borrowing money from OPEC. And yet to hear the rhetoric in this Chamber and our committee rooms about OPEC, one would consider them, well, to use George Lucas, the Darth Vader of the international order in terms of its impact on America. Mr. Speaker, we have borrowed, we owe them almost $70 billion. What are we doing?
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

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