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On the recordDecember 16, 2014
This implication is that somehow we can't have both a clean environment and a healthy economy. This is something I strongly disagree with.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

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Gillibrand argues that a clean environment can coexist with a healthy economy.

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