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On the recordJune 7, 2011
I would think that anyone here today who found out that the water they had been drinking contained gasoline would find that a little alarming.
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Richard Burr
Republican · North Carolina
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Burr highlights the alarming contamination of drinking water at Camp Lejeune.

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