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Dick Durbin: “We stopped talking about this on Capitol Hill. We decided that the debate over global warming was too contentious, too…”

On the recordJuly 27, 2011
We stopped talking about this on Capitol Hill. We decided that the debate over global warming was too contentious, too politically charged, and too divided for us to have any meaningful conversation about what to do with it.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin critiques the avoidance of climate change discussions in Congress.

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