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Jeanne Shaheen: “It is kind of like the Capitol here, that it is--the warmer it gets outside the colder it gets in here.”

On the recordJune 22, 2022
It is kind of like the Capitol here, that it is--the warmer it gets outside the colder it gets in here.
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Jeanne Shaheen
Democratic · New Hampshire

Editor's note · Context

Shaheen compares temperature control in the Capitol to energy inefficiency in Ukraine.

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