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On the recordMarch 7, 2012
While my Republican colleagues may engage in a scorched-earth strategy and an endless and senseless blame game gamut and point to the administration's policies as the singular cause for rising gas prices, I believe that in fact it is your agency's programs and policies that will help America move past our dependence on foreign oil and fossil fuels in general so that we will not continue to have this debate every year as gas prices inevitably rise.
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Bobby Rush
Democratic · Illinois

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Rush criticizes Republicans for blaming the administration for rising gas prices, highlighting the need for energy independence.

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