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On the recordMay 11, 2022
if we need to buy fertilizer, and we need to buy oil, and we need to buy coal, or we need to buy some other source, we expect to have that taken out of the land or the mine and given to us, and we, in turn, pay for it.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

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Hoyer emphasizes the need to pay for resources taken from the environment.

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