12/02/2009
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"Alaska stands ready, willing, and certainly able to be a big part of that solution."
"Our reality as a country is that we have a resource that not only we need right now, but the world needs right now."
"Alaska is willing, and able, and ready to increase our Nation's and our allies energy security."
"I can say with real certainty that was not the case."