Ed Whitfield actually said...

These greenhouse gas rules are a regulatory overreach in my view and serve as a backdoor cap and tax policy that Congress rejected in the last Congress.

Context

Whitfield criticizes EPA regulations as excessive and a hidden tax.

06/18/2012

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