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On the recordApril 13, 2011
What I have found is that cost-benefit analysis can be subjected to very strange interpretations on what is the benefit.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Collins critiques the EPA's interpretation of benefits in cost-benefit analysis.

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