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On the recordMarch 29, 2023
The costs that I've listened to in these five hearings pale, I mean pale in comparison to what we've already I would say wasted, $5 trillion trying to hold back the tides.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Johnson argues that past spending on climate change has been ineffective.

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