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Shelley Moore Capito: “A pledge from the president is powerful. I don't think…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Capito Joins News Nation's "the Hill"

Published | Video Starts at 03:42

And it provides us a way to compete in the world that, that matters less to local folks than how is this going to most deeply affect me? And power bills is, is one of the ways that it will. So I think A pledge from the president is powerful. I don't think Congress needs to act. I think that the constructors of these and the users of these need to get their act together and make sure that this is clear to the locals. (03:42–03:47)

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Asserts that a presidential pledge is sufficient and congressional action is unnecessary.

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