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On the recordSeptember 25, 2019
I think particularly if I were sitting in the shoes you all are sitting in because constituents resonate with how much they're paying for cereal or their gas prices or whether their child is vulnerable to a particular disease from a mosquito that couldn't live where they live now but can because of changing climate envelopes.
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Lizzie Fletcher
Democratic · Texas

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Fletcher emphasizes the direct impact of climate change on constituents' daily lives.

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