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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Capitol Hill ….

1:30 p.m. GAS PRICES _ The Senate Democratic Policy Committee holds a hearing on gasoline prices and energy trading, with Robert McCullough, McCullough Research; Michael Greenberger, Director of Markets and Trading at the CFTC during the Clinton Administration; Eric Christiansen, an attorney representing Snohomish County Public Utility District in Washington State; Don Olsen, representing Huntsman International, one of the nation’s largest chemical companies; Erik Saltmarsh, Executive Director & Chief Counsel of the California Electricity Oversight Board; Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

Location: Room 138, Dirksen.

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