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Ed Markey: I yield myself 30 additional seconds. We are talking Shell Oil who says it's 10 years away. Jim Inhofe in the Senate…

On the recordFebruary 15, 2012
I yield myself 30 additional seconds. We are talking Shell Oil who says it's 10 years away. Jim Inhofe in the Senate says the votes aren't there to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. So that's zero dollars as well. And the likelihood of them drilling off the coast of California or Florida or Massachusetts for oil is zero. So rather than going through this facade of trying to pretend that real highways can be built with fake oil revenues, we should be taking up the offer of President Obama where he says he'll open up 75 percent of all the drilling possibilities off the coastlines of our country. That is what this debate should be all about. I reserve the balance of my time.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Feb 15, 2012

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