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On the recordJuly 8, 2015
Why wouldn't we be talking about taking this excess light sweet crude and tooling up our refinery capacity to keep it here in the United States?
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton advocates for refining crude domestically instead of exporting it.

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