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On the recordSeptember 13, 2011
I understand who your loyalties lie to, and it is to the environmental left and it is to Harry Reid and this green agenda that can't produce the power needed for reliability and destroys all those jobs I just put up on the slide.
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John Shimkus
Republican · Illinois

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Shimkus criticizes environmental policies for harming job reliability in energy sectors.

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