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Mike Conaway: the broad, 10,000 foot statement is, it looks like everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die to get there.

On the recordJune 10, 2009
the broad, 10,000 foot statement is, it looks like everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die to get there.
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Mike Conaway
Texas

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Conaway critiques reluctance to bear costs for climate change initiatives.

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