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Barbara Boxer: “But that being said, if we just turn our heads and say, oh, this hearing should be about the national security…”

On the recordJuly 29, 2009
But that being said, if we just turn our heads and say, oh, this hearing should be about the national security implications of cap-and-trade, I would like to be a little more basic here and focus on what are the national security implications if we start losing glaciers so that these developing countries that we are already trying to keep very instable governments in place become ever more instable.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Boxer calls for addressing national security implications of climate change and energy dependence.

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