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On the recordMay 25, 2016
These measures will adversely affect our economy and have no significant impact on global temperatures by the EPA's own admission, so the regulations perpetrate a fraud on the American people.
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Lamar Smith
Republican · Texas

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Smith criticizes new power plant regulations as economically harmful and ineffective against climate change.

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