SFR Talk Audio Extra: 51 Minutes With Ben Ray Lujan

There was much more to our interview with US Rep. Ben Ray Luján than we were able to fit into this week's SFR Talk or last week's

, including:

* Why he thinks it's important for the US to

stay in Afghanistan

* Whether he thinks PNM, one of his bigger campaign contributors, is

* Why he

Listen to the full interview with the embedded player below, or download the MP3

.

And here are some

rough and incomplete

topical time stamps, for your inconvenience.

0-3 min

.: Life in Washington

3-21 min

.: Health care

21 min

.: Energy issues

23 min

.: Changing the national labs' mission

26 min

.: PNM and renewable energy

31 min

.: PRC and Jerome Block Jr

32 min

.: Iraq and Afghanistan

43 min

.: Commercial space travel

44 min

.: Adam Kokesh, miscellany

50 minutes

: The stimulus

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