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On the recordMarch 25, 2014
Mr. Chairman, I really want to ask my colleagues today, let's take a real good look at this, at what we are doing. In a country that so badly now is looking for leadership across all phases so that we can retain our position in the world, let's take a look at where we are today with this coal strategy. If it is truly a war on coal and if it is truly a war we can't win, then I say that is not why we came here. I strongly urge the passage of H.R. 2824.
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Mike Kelly
Republican · Pennsylvania

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