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Garret Graves: “We are either giving other Nations billions and billions of dollars, and giving them millions of jobs, or we are going…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2017
We are either giving other Nations billions and billions of dollars, and giving them millions of jobs, or we are going to do it here.
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Garret Graves
Republican · Louisiana

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Graves argues for domestic energy production over foreign imports.

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