April 9, 2012

Can We Handle More Oil and Gas Price Shocks?

Daniel Weiss, House Committee on Natural Resource


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Chairman Hastings, Ranking Member Markey, and members of the committee, thank you very much for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Daniel J. Weiss. I am a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a tax-exempt organization dedicated to improving the lives of Americans by transforming progressive values and ideas into policy. . .

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