Ed Whitfield actually said...

I take exception to that because in his Action Plan he included many of the component parts of the cap-and-trade legislation that was considered by the Congress in 2009, the Waxman-Markey bill.

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Whitfield disagrees with President Obama's claim of congressional inaction on climate change legislation.

09/17/2013

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