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Hal Rogers: “We policymakers and regulators have a special obligation to the 29 men who lost their lives on that fateful day.”

On the recordMarch 16, 2011
We policymakers and regulators have a special obligation to the 29 men who lost their lives on that fateful day.
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Hal Rogers
Republican · Kentucky

Editor's note · Context

Hal Rogers highlights the obligation to honor miners who died in the Upper Big Branch mine disaster.

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