[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 123 (Monday, July 23, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1043]
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                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                            HON. DIANE BLACK

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, July 23, 2018

  Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Speaker, I am not recorded for roll call votes on 
Thursday, July 19, 2018 because I was unavoidably detained. Had I been 
present, I would have voted Aye on final passage for H. Con. Res. 119, 
which expresses the sense of Congress that a carbon tax is not in the 
best interest of the United States. Like any federal mandate that 
intervenes in our economy, a carbon tax would reward special-interests 
at the expense of American families. Further, carbon taxes are 
regressive and would disproportionately burden lower and middle class 
families.

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