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Jim Inhofe: It does hit the Heartland more, that the costs we are talking about is somewhere between $300 billion and $400 billion a…

On the recordOctober 27, 2009
It does hit the Heartland more, that the costs we are talking about is somewhere between $300 billion and $400 billion a year.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe highlights the disproportionate financial burden on the Heartland from energy costs.

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