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On the recordMay 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
Democratic · Arizona

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Kelly argues that recent oil production increases are primarily on non-Federal lands.

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