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Ed Markey: Do you believe, Mr. Secretary, that the authority of the President to deploy the Strategic Petroleum Reserve should…

On the recordMarch 7, 2012
Do you believe, Mr. Secretary, that the authority of the President to deploy the Strategic Petroleum Reserve should depend on the permitting of the Keystone Pipeline?
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey questions the dependency of SPR deployment on Keystone Pipeline approval.

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