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Heidi Alexander: “This is a rare piece of legislation, something we agree on across the aisle, that could immediately save 340,000 jobs…”

On the recordNovember 16, 2011
This is a rare piece of legislation, something we agree on across the aisle, that could immediately save 340,000 jobs, that keeps the clean air rule the EPA has proposed, but simply gives them time to write it properly, the authority to write it properly, and businesses the opportunity to comply with it within a reasonable period of time. I hope we will adopt it. I yield the floor and I suggest the absence of a quorum. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
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Heidi Alexander
Labour Party
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Nov 16, 2011

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