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Steve Daines: It will cost us 7,000 jobs, $500 million a year in annual income, and the loss of $145 million in state tax revenues.

On the recordDecember 7, 2015
It will cost us 7,000 jobs, $500 million a year in annual income, and the loss of $145 million in state tax revenues.
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Steve Daines
Republican · Montana

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Daines outlines the job and economic losses from the Clean Power Plan.

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