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On the recordJune 19, 2013
My hope, as I yield back my time, is that we can strike the right balance so that it is cost effective to pursue a number of these different opportunities and that we can safeguard, as I said, public health and other concerns that we have.
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland

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Sarbanes emphasizes the need for balance between energy opportunities and public health.

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