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On the recordJuly 13, 2020
If 70 percent of our energy comes from fossil fuels and if Wall Street stops financing gas-fired power plants and has an aversion to funding pipelines because they don't know whether they are going to be built or not because of regulations, is this a positive or a negative sign for our national security?
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David McKinley
Republican · West Virginia

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McKinley questions the implications of Wall Street's aversion to fossil fuel investments on national security.

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