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How long are you planning to stay here? http://54niwat.com/can-i-take-motrin-600-and-tylenol-3-6434.pdf 800 mg motrin vs 4 200 mg ibuprofen Today I am in the Senate testifying before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on proposed legislation to shift some of the federal revenues collected from offshore energy development to a handful of the "closest" coastal states for energy produced in federal waters (more than six miles off the coast) – usually in the form of oil and gas drilling, and, more recently, from wind and other renewable energy sources. The bipartisan bill I am testifying about has the somewhat Orwellian name of the FAIR Act (S. 1273) and is not surprisingly led by Sens. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Lisa Murkowski R-Alaska, whose states stand to gain mightily from the bill's passage. This isn't the first – or I suspect the last – ill-conceived proposal to shift these revenues from the federal treasury to the states. Why is this a bad deal for taxpayers? The short answer is that revenue-sharing provisions like the ones in S. 1273 un-FAIR-ly divert billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury to states. Not only is this bad policy, in today's fiscal climate it is downright foolish.
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