Carl Levin actually said...

The Government should avoid acquiring oil for the Reserve under these circumstances.

Quoting John Shages' recommendation regarding oil acquisition for the SPR.

02/04/2004

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I know you have talked about the deficit and how to go about addressing it and how you would recommend that we proceed with deficit reductio...

both Democratic U.S. Senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow

Is it not obvious what was happening here, that these prices were being changed in order to reduce the loss on the books?

We will have 12-minute rounds, if that is OK.