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On the recordOctober 5, 2009
The Iran Sanctions Enabling Act, which Senator Brownback and I introduced last May, would allow State and local government pension funds to divest from companies that do more than $20 million in business with the Iranian energy sector.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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Schumer discusses a legislative act aimed at sanctioning Iran through pension fund divestment.

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