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Jim Inhofe: this brown stuff down here, it is dirt. Now, that round green thing, that is cotton. This up here is wind.

On the recordJune 14, 2011
this brown stuff down here, it is dirt. Now, that round green thing, that is cotton. This up here is wind.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe humorously explains farm dust to constituents unfamiliar with agriculture.

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