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On the recordMarch 12, 2018
If this Administration is committed to what I have heard you say time and again, an all-of-the-above energy strategy, then why is renewable energy the only energy program that is proposed to be cut?
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Catherine Cortez Masto
Democratic · Nevada

Editor's note · Context

Questioning cuts to renewable energy programs in the budget.

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