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On the recordFebruary 3, 2009
My question is about the steel industry. As the Senator knows, I, along with him, tried to stand up for American steel. So the Senator means to say if a steelmaker moves production overseas at a very minimal rate, and then ships steel back, they are going to have a lower tax rate than the steel company that struggled, downsized, rightsized to try to stay in this country and manufacture steel?
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Barbara Mikulski
Democratic · Maryland

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Questioning tax policies affecting the American steel industry.

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