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Gary Palmer: “I would--again, using our imagination, I would go so far as to say that it appears to me, Mr. Chairman, that the EPA is…”

On the recordMarch 22, 2016
I would--again, using our imagination, I would go so far as to say that it appears to me, Mr. Chairman, that the EPA is acting in collusion with environmental groups to achieve their agenda, whatever it may be, of regulating outside their statutory authority.
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Gary Palmer
Republican · Alabama

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Palmer suggests the EPA is colluding with environmental groups to bypass regulations.

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