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On the recordFebruary 13, 2013
we're now at a spot it wasn't that long ago 60 percent of the oil that we were using in the United States was imported. Now 60 percent of the oil that we're using in the United States is from the United States
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford discusses the shift to domestic oil production in the U.S.

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