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On the recordFebruary 7, 2012
When you talk in your--I don't know if you talked in your testimony, but you gave us in an answer to a question, you just said that--you used the phrase 'real people.'
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton challenges the EPA's claims about health impacts on 'real people' from mercury emissions.

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