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GOP senator: Murkowski lacks votes for plan to block EPA climate rules

by Ben Geman - 06/10/10 4:35 PM ET

The first-term senator said EPA climate rules represent a power grab by the administration at the expense of Congress.

“This is a major policy decision that will affect every single American. It has profound effects on the economy. It has profound effects on the movement of jobs overseas, and these are things that should be debated, and they are things that should be decided by elected persons, not by the people at the EPA who are not elected and not answerable to the electorate,” he said.

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