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Jon Skolnik

HISTORICAL FACTS: Gop vote against stop to price gouging - The Untold Story

Jared Golden, Kathleen Rice and Stephanie Murphy Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

Four Democrats broke ranks in a vote on a Democratic House bill designed to clamp down on price gouging by oil and gas companies amid the nationwide surge in the cost of fuel. 

Reps. Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Lizzie Fletcher, D-Tex., all joined their Republican colleagues in a vote against the measure, which passed along a narrow 217-207 vote.

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