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On the recordSeptember 14, 2009
I mean what could we be buying for $1.4 trillion? Doesn't that offset just, I mean that's money that could instead go to helping us stimulate the investment that we need to see in green technology here in the United States instead of spending $1.4 trillion abroad?
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Questioning the value of spending on international offsets versus domestic green technology investment.

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