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On the recordJuly 22, 2013
For you to insinuate that you actually have more oversight and more legal authority to extract information from coal companies than we, the voice of the American people, have to get information from you and this Administration on what you are doing to a vital energy industry I think is despicable.
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Bill Johnson
Republican · Ohio

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Johnson criticizes Pizarchik for claiming greater oversight than Congress.

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