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Gary Palmer: “It increases the pressure on Americans' pocketbooks by increasing the price at the pump and, really, at every level. It…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2017
It increases the pressure on Americans' pocketbooks by increasing the price at the pump and, really, at every level. It proposes Washington-centric solutions to problems that the States are better equipped to determine, such as the whole college issue. And it spends $500 billion on green energy and imposes a carbon tax. Mr. Chairman, we have a moral responsibility to spend taxpayer dollars wisely, and the Progressive Caucus fails to do this in its budget. I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this amendment.
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Gary Palmer
Republican · Alabama
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Oct 4, 2017

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