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Lee Terry: “It seems like an extreme exaggeration, then, to reach a conclusion if 1 percent of the EPA's budget was eliminated, that…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 2012
It seems like an extreme exaggeration, then, to reach a conclusion if 1 percent of the EPA's budget was eliminated, that that would equal 100 percent of all new technologies and research like the catalytic converter.
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Lee Terry
Nebraska

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Terry argues against the claim that budget cuts would halt new technologies.

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