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Published 11/8/2006
Terry to focus on energy

WOWT Channel 6
District 2

District 2
Nebraska's District 2 congressman says he's ready to get moving on another term after a come-from-behind win Tuesday.

Republican Lee Terry won the race with 53 percent of the vote to challenger Jim Esch's 47 percent.

This will be Terry's fifth term in office and he says he already has a game plan for the next two years.

He says the plan is to, "focus on energy independence and make sure that we are independent by the year 2015. That's going to be a lot of heavy lifting, but I think we need to do that."

Terry says he favors building more oil refineries as a way to increase fuel supplies and prevent the disruption and skyrocketing prices that followed last year's Gulf hurricanes.

The incumbent had trailed earlier in the night, which was a new experience for him. Terry said being behind was painful, but he predicted he would pull ahead as more votes were counted.

Esch said he thought his campaign had the momentum going into Election Day as he continued to criticize Terry's stance on the war in Iraq.

Terry, 44, said that he does not support immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops because the job is "not yet done," and because leaving now would hurt U.S. credibility in foreign policy.

But Esch, a 30-year-old Omaha lawyer, said the war in Iraq and the subsequent occupation has been mismanaged and that a diplomatic solution is needed.

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