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Joe Manchin: “Basically this rule takes an awful lot of the resources this country has had and it has depended on over the years…”

On the recordOctober 26, 2015
Basically this rule takes an awful lot of the resources this country has had and it has depended on over the years basically out of any type of production.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin criticizes a rule that he believes limits resource production.

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