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On the recordMarch 7, 2017
It is a lifeline in a community where the unemployment rate, as we head from Chairman Not Afraid, is somewhere between 25 and 47 percent.
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Steve Daines
Republican · Montana

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Daines emphasizes the critical role of coal jobs for the Crow Nation's economy.

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