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Paul Gosar: “The challenge we have here is to face, to balance competing interests, serious economic interests that benefit different…”

On the recordJune 13, 2018
The challenge we have here is to face, to balance competing interests, serious economic interests that benefit different communities in different ways, and this legislation clearly creates a presumption in favor of oil and gas drilling at the expense of other economic interests.
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Paul Gosar
Republican · Arizona

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Gosar discusses the need to balance economic interests in legislation favoring oil and gas.

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