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On the recordMarch 19, 2012
I think that it's something. It just seems to me that these industries, this industry, that's going to benefit from the study of how to do fracking in a way that makes the fracking possible to do.
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Al Franken
Democratic · Minnesota

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Franken emphasizes that the oil and gas industry should fund fracking research.

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