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Barbara Boxer: GOP bill will kill 8100 people

By Charlie Spiering

Published December 15, 2011 5:00am ET

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Barbara Boxer: GOP bill will kill 8100 people — Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was very upset yesterday about a Republican effort to roll back a provision of the Clean Air Ac as part of the onmibus bill. “They have attached a poison pill — literally, colleagues — because it will kill 8,100 more people more than would have otherwise been killed from pollution,” Boxer […]

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was very upset yesterday about a Republican effort to roll back a provision of the Clean Air Ac as part of the onmibus bill.

“They have attached a poison pill — literally, colleagues — because it will kill 8,100 more people more than would have otherwise been killed from pollution,” Boxer said on the Senate floor yesterday, “So how’s that for a Christmas gift?”

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