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Bob Goodlatte: “The cap-and-trade proposal is really an $846 billion national energy tax that will hit nearly every American.”

On the recordJune 10, 2009
The cap-and-trade proposal is really an $846 billion national energy tax that will hit nearly every American.
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Bob Goodlatte
Republican · Virginia

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Goodlatte describes cap-and-trade as a costly tax affecting all Americans.

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