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On the recordJune 20, 2010
I think the American people should know that there is a worst-case scenario of 100,000 barrels a day, which is four million gallons of oil a day going into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Editor's note · Context

Markey emphasizes the potential severity of the oil spill based on internal BP estimates.

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