Heidi Alexander said "while the Senator from Rhode Island is still here, I was pleased to join with him in an article published in the New York Times not long ago. We don't agree on everything, but we do agree on this: Climate change is a serious problem, and it makes no sense to close nuclear power plants while they are safely operating and producing 60 percent of our carbon-free electricity in the United States. So I thank him for his partnership on that article in the New York Times." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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while the Senator from Rhode Island is still here, I was pleased to join with him in an article published in the New York Times not long ago. We don't agree on everything, but we do agree on this: Climate change is a serious problem, and it makes no sense to close nuclear power plants while they are safely operating and producing 60 percent of our carbon-free electricity in the United States. So I thank him for his partnership on that article in the New York Times.

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