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Billy Long: Common sense would dictate to me that pipelines that are 40, 50, 60, some 70 years old and better would probably not be…

On the recordSeptember 18, 2013
Common sense would dictate to me that pipelines that are 40, 50, 60, some 70 years old and better would probably not be nearly as safe as a new state-of-the-art pipeline that we could build today.
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Billy Long
Missouri

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Long argues for the safety of new pipelines over aging ones.

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