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On the recordJuly 27, 2015
Big oil may not like that, but the Massachusetts voters did not send me here to work for them.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren emphasizes her duty to voters over big oil interests.

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