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Ted Cruz: If the ramp-up to develop a new engine is substantially longer than our capacity to survive not having these imports, it…

On the recordJuly 15, 2014
If the ramp-up to develop a new engine is substantially longer than our capacity to survive not having these imports, it would seem there is some considerable exigency to starting that process now and not getting caught flat-footed if the worst comes to pass.
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Ted Cruz
Republican · Texas

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Cruz warns about the urgency of developing a new engine to avoid dependency on imports.

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