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Byron Dorgan: I offered an amendment to provide that Iraqi oil ought to bear the burden of Iraq reconstruction. [...] It ought to be…

On the recordNovember 3, 2003
I offered an amendment to provide that Iraqi oil ought to bear the burden of Iraq reconstruction. [...] It ought to be that oil, not the burden of the American taxpayer, that pays for the reconstruction of Iraq.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the funding for Iraq reconstruction during debate on the Iraq supplemental conference report.

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