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On the recordFebruary 23, 2016
I urge you to end this penalty on coal communities because since that law came into effect, we have been forced to withhold almost $71 million of money that we collected from the industry to provide to coal country.
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John Rice Carter
Republican · Georgia

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Carter calls for the release of withheld funds for coal communities.

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