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Ted Lieu: “In my home State of California we went from the eighth largest economy in the world to the fifth largest economy in the…”

On the recordApril 1, 2019
In my home State of California we went from the eighth largest economy in the world to the fifth largest economy in the world even though we had the strongest climate change laws in the Nation.
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Ted Lieu
Democratic · California

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Ted Lieu highlights California's economic growth linked to strong climate change laws.

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