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Joe Manchin: “It is hard to go home and explain why we would be exporting when, basically, the prices here can be so volatile.”

On the recordOctober 5, 2015
It is hard to go home and explain why we would be exporting when, basically, the prices here can be so volatile.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin expresses concern about exporting crude oil amid volatile domestic prices.

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