Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

Industry frequently talks about the costs of a rule. And when they measure the rule, they talk exclusively about the cost to themselves...

Industry focuses only on costs to themselves, ignoring public health benefits.

09/28/2015

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My preferred policy is a border adjusted carbon tax that creates incentives to account for the costs for energy use.

We recommend that the committee advance this legislation expeditiously.

There is an enormous burden of unnecessary administrative cost from that.

We've raised it under divided Congresses and under unified ones.