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On the recordJanuary 24, 2012
For a year I have been asking a simple question: Who benefits from this extraordinary Congressional intervention in the regulatory process?
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman questions the motives behind Congressional actions on the pipeline.

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