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Jay Rockefeller: We pay an Iran tax for our current policy. Every day, $100 million goes to Iran today, even as we are poised to sanction…

On the recordMay 17, 2010
We pay an Iran tax for our current policy. Every day, $100 million goes to Iran today, even as we are poised to sanction them with respect to nuclear proliferation.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

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Critique of U.S. oil dependency funding adversarial nations.

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