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On the recordSeptember 7, 2011
The bills we consider today would block and indefinitely delay EPA's efforts to make good on a 40-year-old promise to the American people that toxic air pollutants will be controlled.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman criticizes proposed bills that would hinder EPA's pollution control efforts.

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