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Sherwood Boehlert: Because you've got sort of inertia on Capitol Hill. You've got some people still thinking the same old way. Some people…

On the recordJune 18, 2006
Because you've got sort of inertia on Capitol Hill. You've got some people still thinking the same old way. Some people refusing to be confused by the facts. Not theories. Not opinions. The facts.

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Sherwood Boehlert comments on the lack of action in Congress regarding global warming.

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