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John Garamendi: Well, I am going to interrupt you for a moment. Because I wasn't yet in Congress when this piece of legislation went…

On the recordApril 13, 2010
Well, I am going to interrupt you for a moment. Because I wasn't yet in Congress when this piece of legislation went into law. So I immediately started looking around and seeing about the clunkers that I have on my ranch. And I have this old beat-up Bronco, and I thought, oh, oh, there is my clunker. I am going to trade that thing in for a new efficient model. And it turned out because it wasn't running, I had it on the not-for-the-highway license, in other words, it was just on storage, and your bill was written in such a way that I couldn't take advantage of this. So I have got a little problem with the way in which you wrote that bill, but for the rest of America it was a great idea.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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govinfo.gov
Apr 13, 2010

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Garamendi discusses issues with a vehicle trade-in bill he could not benefit from.

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