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Elizabeth Warren: “Selling off our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is just not a way to do that.”

On the recordOctober 5, 2015
Selling off our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is just not a way to do that.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing that selling the reserve won't solve funding issues for essential services.

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