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On the recordMarch 16, 2009
If oil and gas companies are not using the leases they have now, I'd like to know why they need more leases in environmentally and economically sensitive areas.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Menendez questions the need for new leases given the underutilization of existing ones.

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