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Jeanne Shaheen: “To ignore the scientific information that is available and suggest that we should not participate in addressing that…”

On the recordMarch 21, 2017
To ignore the scientific information that is available and suggest that we should not participate in addressing that with the rest of the world I think is just naive and very shortsighted.
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Jeanne Shaheen
Democratic · New Hampshire

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Shaheen criticizes ignoring climate change's impact on humanitarian crises.

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