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Jackie Speier: Even more importantly, we ought to be examining the Department of Interior's failure, and I underscore failure, to…

On the recordMay 15, 2013
Even more importantly, we ought to be examining the Department of Interior's failure, and I underscore failure, to collect the full amount of revenues and royalties that these companies owe the American people for the oil and gas they are producing or not producing from publicly owned lands.
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Jackie Speier
Democratic · California

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Speier criticizes the Department of Interior for failing to collect owed revenues from oil and gas companies.

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