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On the recordFebruary 4, 2020
I have lived long enough to know what it was like to be energy-dependent and now to be 90 percent of the way to independence.
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Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · Ohio

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Kaptur reflects on the progress toward energy independence in the U.S.

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