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On the recordMarch 6, 2012
We can't afford to take money from taxpayers struggling to pay their mortgages and fill up their tanks and hand it to oil companies making billions in profits.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Call to repeal oil subsidies to support taxpayers instead.

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