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Kit Bond: “Cap-and-trade is a double-barreled shotgun of lost jobs and higher energy taxes pointed at the Midwest and the South.”

On the recordJuly 15, 2009
Cap-and-trade is a double-barreled shotgun of lost jobs and higher energy taxes pointed at the Midwest and the South.
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Kit Bond
Republican · Missouri

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Describes cap-and-trade as harmful to jobs and energy costs.

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