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On the recordSeptember 7, 2011
Our country is struggling, and to say that the environmental rules are responsible, how could that be if these rules have not yet been in effect?
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman questions the blame on environmental rules for plant closures before they are enacted.

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