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Sean Casten: “We do not have time to debate settled science any more than we have time to debate gravity.”

On the recordJuly 24, 2019
We do not have time to debate settled science any more than we have time to debate gravity.
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Sean Casten
Democratic · Illinois

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Casten stresses the urgency of acknowledging climate science.

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