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Dick Lugar: Let me just say at the outset that when asked by the press whether I would have voted for Waxman-Markey if I had been in…

On the recordJuly 21, 2009
Let me just say at the outset that when asked by the press whether I would have voted for Waxman-Markey if I had been in the House, my answer is no.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar expresses his opposition to the Waxman-Markey bill.

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