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On the recordApril 15, 2015
I think it does just push the discussion on what we do here in this country to relook, critically relook, at these export policies that are inhibiting not only our job growth, our economic opportunity, but really our ability to utilize a resource, a strategic resource, for the benefit of the geopolitics surrounding, not only oil, but other resources as well and how the United States can play as an international leader with, effectively, this oil diplomacy, if you will.
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John Hoeven
Republican · North Dakota

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Senator Hoeven emphasizes the need to reassess U.S. export policies for economic and geopolitical benefits.

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