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D.C. (AP) Senator Heidi Heitkamp is emerging as perhaps President Barack Obama’s most consistent Democratic critic on energy policy. She’s using much of her time as senator to work on energy issues she says are critical to her state and finds herself at odds with Obama.

Heitkamp says that Obama’s energy policy lacks consistency. She also says that when he talks about an “all of the above” energy policy, that’s not what she sees.

Heitkamp has criticized the administration for its stance on coal, the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline and other issues. As a former director for a coal and natural gas plant in North Dakota, Heitkamp says tackling energy issues comes naturally.