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John Shimkus: “When I was going over the testimony and what we have gone--you know, the Congress and where we are at today, it was only…”

On the recordDecember 4, 2019
When I was going over the testimony and what we have gone--you know, the Congress and where we are at today, it was only 8 years ago that we were trying to move to a cap-and-trade program, and we were moving to national healthcare under Obamacare. Done poorly, the results were politically a change in Congress.
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John Shimkus
Republican · Illinois

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Shimkus warns about the political consequences of poorly executed policies.

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