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Tom Cole: “The district has 13 to 14,000 farms and ranches.”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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Published March 22, 2019 | Video Starts at 00:51

Tell us about your district. What's an interesting of course, you've got those two anchoring at each end. You've got 20,000 producing oil and gas wells. So it's an energy The district has 13 to 14,000 farms and ranches. So it's an ag district. It's number seven in the country in terms of the number of horses per capita. (00:51–00:55)

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“The district has five different colleges and universities.”
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