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Dan Berman, POLITICO Pro’s energy editor, talks about  how removing tax subsidies for large oil companies has become central to the Democrats plan to lessen the debt, and Robert Menendez, U.S. Senator from New Jersey (D), talks about subsidies for the five largest oil companies as a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the issue progresses in Washington D.C.

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Robert Menendez, U.S. Senator from New Jersey (D) and the author of Growing American Roots: Why Our Nation Will Thrive as Our Largest Minority Flourishes, talks about the U.S. intervention in Libya, gas prices, oil leases and the continuing budget battle in Washington.

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Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) is heralding a bill called the "Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act." The legislation would increase the amount of money oil companies would have to pay in the case of a spill from $75 million to $10 billion.

Leonard Lance, freshman congressman from New Jersey (R-7th) and member of the House Financial Services Committee, discusses the banking reform legislation. Then Robert Menendez, U.S. Senator from New Jersey (D) and the author of Growing American Roots: Why Our Nation Will Thrive as Our Largest Minority Flourishes offers his take on the proposed law.

As the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is in charge of making sure his party maintains its 60-seat majority, in spite of a daunting agenda that includes health care reform and coming back from the economic brink. But in his new book, "Growing American Roots: Why Our Nation Will Thrive as Our Largest Minority Flourishes," Menendez argues that Democrats should tap into something of a secret weapon — a growing population of Latino voters who are eager for change.

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