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On the recordApril 24, 2013
So, I just wanted to know why should it take nearly a decade, if we are going to wait until 2017, why should it take over a decade for us to learn the lessons from the Gulf...
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Rob Wittman
Republican · Virginia

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Wittman questions the delay in learning from past Gulf incidents regarding energy development.

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