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      <excerpt>...to American families who are forced to decide whether they will pay the mortgage or their health insurance premium,&quot; said Rep. John Dingell, D-Dearborn, the lead sponsor of the legislation.  John Conyers, D-Detroit, said in a statement Saturday: &quot;While </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...how environmentalists couch it, cap-and-trade will do virtually nothing to stop global warming, and cap-and-trade, as Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) said, is a tax, and a great big one. These are the fundamentals in the cap-and-trade debate, and Republican</excerpt>
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