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Maria Cantwell: “For Congress now to undermine that process would be to undermine the Clean Air Act itself and the sanctity of…”

On the recordJune 10, 2010
For Congress now to undermine that process would be to undermine the Clean Air Act itself and the sanctity of science-based policymaking. It would be a very bad precedent, and it would be a threat to our children and to the environment in which we want them to grow up.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington
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govinfo.gov
Jun 10, 2010

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Cantwell is addressing the importance of maintaining the Clean Air Act and science-based policymaking.

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