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Tom Barrett: “For Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Alyssa Slotkin to sit by…”

Featuring: Tom Barrett, Republican | U.S. House, Michigan, District 7

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Congressional battle for 7th District with Slotkin, Barrett is most expensive House race in country

Published | Video Starts at 04:11

This is a fundamental part of what we to keep our economy moving and to keep Americans able to heat their own homes and able to live a quality of life. So For Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Alyssa Slotkin to sit by while pipelines are shut down, while he goes overseas to beg the Saudis to pump more oil, when we have far more capacity here in our own country to just bring American energy on the grid. That is what it's going to take to get us out of this economic hardship that we're facing. (04:11–04:27)

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Asserts that pipelines are being shut down and the U.S. has more capacity to produce energy domestically.

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