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On the recordJuly 23, 2013
I would urge you to go look at that and maybe supplement your answer because if what you say is true, and I hope it is, then it is just sort of a useless time-consuming question and then why not take it out and not make people, you know, answer another question which really does not have to do with the two criteria we laid out.
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David Vitter
Republican · Louisiana

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Vitter questions the necessity of a subjective public benefit criterion in project applications.

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