Rick Perry defends his flight record on Capitol Hill

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Energy Secretary Rick Perry defended his travel record Thursday morning during a two-hour hearing before a panel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Perry name-dropped United and Southwest as his airlines of choice in downplaying reports that he used expensive private flights to move around in his official capacity as energy secretary.

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