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Fred Upton: “Cap-and-trade, at least for me and many others, was bad news all around, high cost without benefit.”

On the recordJune 18, 2012
Cap-and-trade, at least for me and many others, was bad news all around, high cost without benefit.
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Fred Upton
Republican · Michigan

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Upton criticizes cap-and-trade legislation as costly and ineffective.

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