04/29/2015
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"Thank you, Senator Portman. Again, I want to thank Ranking Member Johnson for sitting on this hearing with me."
"Ending Europe's reliance on Russian energy must be a thoughtful process, one that is fully implemented to ensure loopholes and back doors are closed to Russian suppliers."
"So what we are trying to do is to see what can we--how can we work within the market forces to see if we can identify re-routing of gas to Europe on an urgent basis and reduce the demand itself."
"We are working on legislation right now to try and address some of the concerns in that region, and obviously energy is one of those big issues."