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Maxine Waters: “I would like to, if I can, engage you in a little colloquy here. What reason would the Members of Congress try and…”

On the recordJune 27, 2013
I would like to, if I can, engage you in a little colloquy here. What reason would the Members of Congress try and protect the oil companies from simply sharing how much they're paying to governments? What reason would they have for doing that? Mr. DeFAZIO. Reclaiming my time, we heard earlier the assertion that that would protect American workers. I'm not quite certain how that's going to work out. And probably it doesn't even help stockholders, because they might really want to know what's going on. I'm not sure.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California
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Jun 27, 2013

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