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Joe Barton: This is not a health-based rule. It is not a rule based on a real economic science.

On the recordApril 13, 2015
This is not a health-based rule. It is not a rule based on a real economic science.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton argues the rule is not scientifically justified and politically driven.

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