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On the recordJanuary 12, 2009
Again, I want to emphasize that by doing so, then we will send a message to other workers in other parts of the country that as we clean up places like Hanford, we work in Ohio and Oklahoma and South Carolina, Nevada, that those promises will be kept to those people there who worked so diligently.
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Tom Udall
Democratic · New Mexico

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Udall stresses the importance of keeping promises to workers during cleanup efforts.

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