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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· May 30, 2012

What we are seeing in Europe is an austerity-only approach taken by some countries that has led to double dip recessions.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· May 30, 2012

If you put these bills into effect, the House passes it next week, let's just say the Senate goes off its rocker and passes it and the President signs it...

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· May 30, 2012

Those numbers change every year. They change every year, we have seen them change just in the last year.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· May 30, 2012

I don't think that changes in the economy are things that we don't expect.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· May 30, 2012

I dare say that you would be hard pressed to get the individuals--all of the individuals who put their names on this to endorse these three bills.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· May 30, 2012

Thank you very much, Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz. I don't think that we were ever allowed down on the House floor this early. It was normally close to the witching hour when I, Representative Ryan, you, and Representative Meek were…

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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· May 30, 2012

I think the concern is things change rather quickly and a process that all of a sudden that was not policy before becomes policy, does not go through the regular process.

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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· May 30, 2012

The Federal Government, all of a sudden, out of the blue, despite the history... showing an interest in hydraulic fracturing and regulating hydraulic fracturing.

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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· May 30, 2012

the waiting and the not knowing and the uncertainty if you are even going to get your permit... it is absolutely stifling these folks.

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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· May 30, 2012

So my advice would be trust the States. The States in which this is happening know exactly what they are doing; they have been at it for generations.

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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· May 30, 2012

I think when you look at 96 percent has happened in the private sector and 4 percent on Federal...

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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· May 30, 2012

I have a problem with people who take credit for things they didn't have anything to do with.

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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· May 30, 2012

Ninety-six percent of it by the way, we have a slide that shows that. The President is saying wow, look what we have done but 96 percent of the increase in U.S. oil production has occurred on non-Federal lands.

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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· May 30, 2012

The conclusion then would be that the EPA doesn't need to be concerned anymore with Dimock, PA with the testing, so the water is safe.

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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· May 30, 2012

On May 11, Roy Seneca, a spokesman for the regional EPA office said they tested 59 wells in Dimock and found the fracking had nothing to do with any contamination of the water.

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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· May 30, 2012

I think all of us are concerned. Sound science, I am totally in favor of. Political science, I wonder because a lot of this is the result of if you don't succeed at first, try it again.

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