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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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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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