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On the recordMay 12, 2021
It sometimes stuns me to think about the resources that we have as a nation--our opportunities to not only provide for an economy and jobs, but resources that our nation needs and our friends and allies want and yet, sometimes, we put in place policies that just handcuff us in our ability to do much of anything.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski highlights the paradox of U.S. resource potential versus restrictive policies.

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