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Ed Whitfield: This proposed rule has been described as a power grab, extreme, radical, unprecedented, and a violation of existing law.

On the recordMarch 16, 2015
This proposed rule has been described as a power grab, extreme, radical, unprecedented, and a violation of existing law.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Whitfield criticizes the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan as an overreach of authority.

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