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Henry Waxman: “Well, if that is the best argument Chairman Upton can make for his bill, I think he is truly grasping at straws.”

On the recordMarch 10, 2011
Well, if that is the best argument Chairman Upton can make for his bill, I think he is truly grasping at straws.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman dismisses Upton's arguments for the bill as weak.

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