It does not solve all of our problems, not by a long stretch of the imagination, but when you recognize that we have not done anything to update our energy policies for close to nine years now, you have to get started somewhere, sometime, and we think that that time is now.
Manchin stresses the urgency of updating energy policies after a long period of inaction.
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