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Maria Cantwell: “What did we get out of the $4 billion tax break, the new tax break in the tax plan that we gave oil companies?”

On the recordJuly 23, 2018
What did we get out of the $4 billion tax break, the new tax break in the tax plan that we gave oil companies?
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Questioning the effectiveness of tax breaks for oil companies amid rising gas prices.

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