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On the recordJanuary 2, 2017
The question is, should we be in or out? A thousand companies have weighed in with the State Department to say we should be in, including oil companies ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley discusses the importance of the U.S. participating in the Paris Agreement.

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