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On the recordApril 9, 2013
Today, this subcommittee is holding a hearing on legislation to make climate change worse by giving preferential treatment to TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. I believe this would be a terrible mistake.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman criticizes the Keystone XL pipeline for its negative impact on climate change.

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