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Ed Whitfield: “Today's hearing gives us the opportunity to learn why the Obama administration denied a permit to build the Keystone…”

On the recordJanuary 24, 2012
Today's hearing gives us the opportunity to learn why the Obama administration denied a permit to build the Keystone pipeline from Canada though parts of the United States.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Whitfield discusses the purpose of the hearing regarding the Keystone pipeline permit denial.

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