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Roger Wicker: “As I understand, what you are saying, these actions will be harmful to the economy, they will raise our energy prices…”

On the recordJuly 17, 2013
As I understand, what you are saying, these actions will be harmful to the economy, they will raise our energy prices, they will hurt our economy in a way that hits particularly hard at the people at the bottom of the economic spectrum.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Wicker questions the economic impact of the Obama administration's actions.

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