Steve Scalise said "If I could go back to that National Association of Manufacturers study on the impact of a carbon tax, the gentleman from Tennessee might be interested in knowing that in Tennessee alone, in the first year of a carbon tax, household utilities would go up by 14 percent, and, in fact, they could experience job losses of up to 40,000 lost jobs just in the State of Tennessee in year one, with a 40 percent increase in their natural gas prices. I wanted to point that out, and then yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia, Chairman Goodlatte." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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If I could go back to that National Association of Manufacturers study on the impact of a carbon tax, the gentleman from Tennessee might be interested in knowing that in Tennessee alone, in the first year of a carbon tax, household utilities would go up by 14 percent, and, in fact, they could experience job losses of up to 40,000 lost jobs just in the State of Tennessee in year one, with a 40 percent increase in their natural gas prices. I wanted to point that out, and then yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia, Chairman Goodlatte.

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Steve Scalise

Republican · Louisiana

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