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On the recordSeptember 15, 2010
But the blanket moratorium on all deepwater drilling does nothing to advance that goal, and in fact the de facto shallow water moratorium has even less of a nexus to the original problem.
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Mary Landrieu
Democratic · Louisiana

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Mary L. Landrieu criticizes the blanket moratorium on deepwater drilling as ineffective.

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