I just think we have to be very careful that we don't do something in the short term which, while it may benefit certain actors in the United States, private industry, in particular in the oil industry, that we, not as my colleague from Pennsylvania expressed his concern on this same issue, that we look down the road, that we don't do something now in the short term that is going to have a very, very negative effect on our national security, on our economic security, on the security of the United States.
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Barton expresses concern about lifting the oil export ban affecting national security.
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