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Senator Jon Tester on Drilling Bill

This is a rush transcript from "Your World with Neil Cavuto," July 17, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.ALEXIS GLICK, GUEST HOST: Instead of drilling more, some leading Democrats are trying to drill the speculators, blaming them for driving up the price of oil. Right now, they're pushing a bill in the Senate that would crack down on those speculators.Reaction now from Democratic Senator Jon Tester from Montana.Good afternoon, Senator. Thanks for joining me.So, tell me, speculation is the way you would like to fix this.(CROSSTALK)GLICK: What would the bill suggest that we do with speculators?SEN. JON TESTER (D), MONTANA: There we go.All right. Alexis...GLICK: Hi, Senator. I'm sorry about that. I understand you couldn't hear.Basically, what would this bill do in terms of fighting speculative activity in the commodities market?TESTER: Yes.Well, I think basically, what it will do is exactly what -- what you said, is it will put more transparency in the market...

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