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On the recordJuly 8, 2015
We have lost 20,000 jobs and yet we have it underneath our feet, and we can't get it because we don't have a place to take it to.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton discusses job losses due to limited energy resource utilization.

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