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On the recordSeptember 18, 2013
if the United States doesn't take this oil and we don't build this needed infrastructure which States like mine need, it is going to China.
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John Hoeven
Republican · North Dakota

Editor's note · Context

Hoeven argues that without U.S. infrastructure, oil will be exported to China.

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