If I could I would have erased it, wiped it clean.

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"I wish (the new rule) could be as clean as possible, " Pistole said.

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Of course, a skeptic (which I am not) could say that Jefferson kept his books clean so he could sell them later.

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And they wrote him -- at one point, I think it was Larry Summers wrote a memo to the President saying, this could undermine your clean energy agenda.

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