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On the recordMay 18, 2009
You start funding the technologies right now, to get them in place, put the legislation and the reductions in place in 2012 or thereafter, you can create the jobs now and have the technology so that there will not be this big bump in the economy.
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Tom Udall
Democratic · New Mexico

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Udall emphasizes the importance of early investment in technology for job creation.

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