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Henry Waxman: “I have been in Congress for almost 40 years, and for 40 years industry has made doomsday claims that clean air…”

On the recordJune 18, 2014
I have been in Congress for almost 40 years, and for 40 years industry has made doomsday claims that clean air regulations would shut down businesses, destroy jobs, drive prices skyward, and cripple economic growth, and they have been wrong every time.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman criticizes industry claims against clean air regulations as historically inaccurate.

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