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On the recordSeptember 20, 2016
But doesn't that seem a little bit strange, that you would blame Keystone XL Pipeline on greenhouse gas emissions, yet for the Iran nuclear agreement you have the fourth-largest reserves of the world--if I recall correctly--of oil, hundreds of millions of barrels of oil dumped on the markets? Do you see any hypocrisy there at all?
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Garret Graves
Republican · Louisiana

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Graves questions the inconsistency in environmental assessments between Keystone XL and the Iran nuclear deal.

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