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On the recordJune 2, 2009
We don't want to destroy the environment in the name of saving the environment.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Alexander warns against harming the environment while pursuing renewable energy.

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If this shallow, hurried and wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist. It would create the weapon of perpetual impeachment to be used…

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If your goal is to increase capacity in the United States, how big a tariff do you have to have in order to make it profitable for companies in the United States to pay for the increased electricity?

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That is farfetched and an abuse of authority.

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