“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordJuly 13, 2020
Well, certainly that, in my opinion, was an oversight to leave the purchase of additional petroleum for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve out of the CARES Act.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas
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Burgess criticizes the omission of oil purchases for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the CARES Act.

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