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Joe Barton: “There is no question that if you regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act you are going to destroy millions of jobs, which…”

On the recordFebruary 17, 2011
There is no question that if you regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act you are going to destroy millions of jobs, which will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, without any real economic analysis to show that it is a harm. So I support the Poe-Carter-Barton amendment, and I hope that the whole House will.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas
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Feb 17, 2011

Editor's note · Context

The speaker is discussing the economic impact of regulating CO2 under the Clean Air Act.

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