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On the recordJuly 11, 2026
We would not have been a country, we would not have had a constitution, if there wasn’t some understanding that if you were landlocked, if that is you didn’t have access to the coast, that you couldn’t get your products out of.
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Mark Gordon
Republican · Wyoming

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Explaining the importance of the commerce clause.

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Jun 13, 2022

Policies like the ban on Federal oil and gas leasing are disproportionately harmful to Western states due to the amount of land and minerals held by the Federal Government and really for no effective reason.

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this leasing ban is detrimental to all of our states.

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What these policies have done to Wyoming is pretty demonstrable.

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