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On the recordJuly 6, 2009
This was the memo, not about new sources, but about carbon dioxide, in which you noted that controlling carbon dioxide is eco-extremism.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley questions the legitimacy of controlling carbon dioxide emissions.

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