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On the recordApril 10, 2008
We need to do more. We are now, by 2012, our domestic needs, we're going to be only producing 12 percent of our gas here. That's got to change. Madam Speaker, let's not go to the beach and leave our work undone. Let's pass this bill, but let's deal with the real issue that Americans feel in their pocketbooks literally every day that they go to the pump.
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Fred Upton
Republican · Michigan

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Addressing domestic gas production and its impact on American consumers.

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