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Jeff Hurd: “What we need to do, Ernest, to answer your question…”

Featuring: Jeff Hurd, Republican | U.S. House Colorado, District 3

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Jeff Hurd and Adam Frisch debate in Pueblo

Published | Video Starts at 1:18:37

My background is a rural electric cooperative attorney, and I will tell you bad energy policy, how it hurts us. Nuclear is it's coming in the future. It's clean, it's also safe, and it's reliable, and it will lower costs. What we need to do, Ernest, to answer your question specifically, is get rid of the government regulation. Part of it is we need to get up to speed, and there's sort of an adoption cost that we're dealing with here. (1:18:37–1:18:42)

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