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Barbara Boxer: “Listen, I heard about that in California from Enron, and I know what happened, 'Leave us alone, prices will go down,'…”

On the recordJune 13, 2006
Listen, I heard about that in California from Enron, and I know what happened, 'Leave us alone, prices will go down,' and we're $11 billion poorer.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California
Source
congress.gov
Jun 13, 2006

Editor's note · Context

Senator Boxer references past failures related to deregulation and its consequences.

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