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Norman D. Dicks: “I do not think you and I will be here to figure out who was right. I would rather do some serious research about it now…”

On the recordMay 18, 2006
I do not think you and I will be here to figure out who was right. I would rather do some serious research about it now than wake up 10 years from now and find out if we would have acted back in 2006 and done something about this, we might have been able to save all of humanity. I mean, this is real and it is an important issue, and I hate to see it be treated so frivolously by the gentleman from Alaska. {time} 1645
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