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Joe Barton: Well, you can't name it because it doesn't exist.

On the recordFebruary 7, 2012
Well, you can't name it because it doesn't exist.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Barton asserts that there is no evidence of individuals harmed by mercury poisoning from power plants.

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