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Tom Carper: “The idea of going out of the fence line, it just seems to me, as my dad would say, that just seems like common sense.”

On the recordMay 4, 2015
The idea of going out of the fence line, it just seems to me, as my dad would say, that just seems like common sense.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper emphasizes the practicality of exploring options beyond traditional regulatory boundaries.

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