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Cheri Bustos: “Those waivers, we like to characterize it as giving out candy on Halloween. They were just given out so…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 2022
Those waivers, we like to characterize it as giving out candy on Halloween. They were just given out so indiscriminately.
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Cheri Bustos
Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Bustos criticized the indiscriminate granting of waivers that harmed the ethanol industry.

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