03/16/2009
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"I remain very disappointed, I'm actually amazed by what I consider to be a short-sighted decision."
"But, as we all know, it's not just making it available. That's the first step, but then we have to ensure that we allow for meaningful opportunities to pursue it."
"Alaska--as you, I think, often refer to it as, sort of, America's Last Frontier and has huge ecological resources up there."
"This country needs to retain an oil industry to keep us from being 100 percent dependent on foreign oil."