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Jeff Merkley: “The funds that flow overseas when we purchase energy, and those funds that go to Venezuela, that go to Saudi Arabia.”

On the recordOctober 27, 2009
The funds that flow overseas when we purchase energy, and those funds that go to Venezuela, that go to Saudi Arabia.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Senator Merkley raises concerns about energy purchases funding adversarial regimes.

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