The truth is that this is an area of New York that desperately needs the economic development and jobs the Marcellus would bring.

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Finally, I am desperately sad to leave the department for international development.

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Go through the weatherization, the retrofitting alone, we believe that policy like this creates a huge incentive that will increase jobs, that hopefully will begin to provide important training and the development of a skill that is obviously desperately needed not simply to jumpstart an economy, but also to meet our goals for energy efficiency and clean energy.

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