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Paul Tonko: If now we are incurring these costs only to export the oil, support for expanded domestic production will be even less…

On the recordJuly 8, 2015
If now we are incurring these costs only to export the oil, support for expanded domestic production will be even less popular than it is already in non-oil producing areas of the country.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Tonko expresses concerns about the impact of oil exports on domestic production support.

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