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James Lankford: “My concern is that if I went back 35 years ago, Congress was conducting hearings and conversations about pushing power…”

On the recordOctober 31, 2011
My concern is that if I went back 35 years ago, Congress was conducting hearings and conversations about pushing power generation out of natural gas into coal and into nuclear because we were 'running out' of natural gas.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford reflects on past energy policy shifts and their implications.

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