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On the recordMarch 16, 2015
I want to go back basically to the money question here, the suggestion that somehow, some way, President Obama, who has a right to express an opinion, muscled you and the Commission into doing something that you did not want to do.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

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Welch addresses claims of presidential influence over regulatory decisions.

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