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Scott Peters: “I want to--I keep hearing about the Green New Deal. It is a straw man. Fewer than half the Democrats have sponsored it.”

On the recordNovember 19, 2019
I want to--I keep hearing about the Green New Deal. It is a straw man. Fewer than half the Democrats have sponsored it.
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Scott Peters
Democratic · California

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Peters critiques the Green New Deal as not widely supported among Democrats.

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