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Ed Whitfield: “You have given me no comfort, Madam Administrator. I am driven to the conclusion that you are telling me that when you…”

On the recordSeptember 7, 2011
You have given me no comfort, Madam Administrator. I am driven to the conclusion that you are telling me that when you have completed this, there is a probability that you will initiate new efforts to come forward with a new rule under perhaps different sections of the Clean Air Act. I regard that as being an extraordinarily unwise action by the agency in several parts.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Whitfield criticizes the Administrator's potential new rule under the Clean Air Act.

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