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On the recordMarch 30, 2009
Considering our unemployment rate is over 8 percent right now and we have lost millions of jobs, is this really a big job-creator?
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Carol Shea-Porter
New Hampshire

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Shea-Porter questions the job creation potential of nuclear projects amid high unemployment.

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