Source:  Franco Ordonez, NEWS & OBSERVER, 1/22/15

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis delivered his first speech on the Senate floor Thursday on offshore drilling, which he says would be a boon for North Carolina. The Charlotte Republican teamed up with U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, a Winston-Salem Republican, and offered an amendment to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline legislation that would allow drilling for oil and natural gas off Mid-Atlantic and South-Atlantic states.

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