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Peter DeFazio: “Our dependence on foreign oil has fallen from 57 percent at the end of the Bush Administration, to 36 percent in 2013.”

On the recordJuly 16, 2013
Our dependence on foreign oil has fallen from 57 percent at the end of the Bush Administration, to 36 percent in 2013.
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Peter DeFazio
Democratic · Oregon

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DeFazio highlights the reduction in foreign oil dependence under President Obama.

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