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Reworked Bill Cuts Cost But Still Provides Jobs

By Sen. Pete Domenici
Special to Roll Call
Feb. 20, 2004, 11:22 a.m.

My new, leaner energy bill creates more than 800,000 new jobs and does more to revitalize rural America than any legislation passed by Congress in the past 30 years — at less than half the cost of the old energy bill.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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The clear expectation is Congress will get very little done this election year. But what does get accomplished, at least in the high-profile areas, will largely be the handiwork of an elite group of staffers — who combine policy expertise, political acumen and the trust of their lawmaker bosses to drive much of the legislative agenda.

Reworked Bill Cuts Cost But Still Provides Jobs

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