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Transcript: SENATOR COLLINS URGES ADMINISTRATION TO TEMPORARILY SUSPEND FILLING STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
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- January 10, 2008
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Capitol Hill Press Releases
01-10-2008
For Immediate Release Senator Collins Urges Administration To Temporarily
Suspend Filling Strategic Petroleum Reserve Contact: Jen Burita / Kevin
Kelley (202) 224-2523 January 10, 2008 WASHINGTON, D.C. - To immediately
address the high cost of energy, U.S. Senator Susan Collins is urging the
Department of Energy to temporarily suspend filling the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve (SPR). In a bipartisan letter sent today to Secretary Samuel Bodman,
Senator Collins, along with Senators Carl Levin (D- MI), Joseph Lieberman
(ID-CT), and Norm Coleman (R-MN), says that she believes that the continued
filling of the SPR will cause increased demand on the oil market, ...