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On the recordFebruary 10, 2015
If you had $6 billion, would you rather spend it each year on subsidizing a 22-year-old mature technology or $6 billion of energy research?
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander questions funding priorities between old technology and energy research.

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