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Maria Cantwell: “To come here with a reorganization plan that is about efficiency but the bottom line is raising electricity rates 30 to…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2018
To come here with a reorganization plan that is about efficiency but the bottom line is raising electricity rates 30 to 40 percent... is just, like you said, it is a bad, bad, bad idea.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Opposition to proposed electricity rate increases.

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