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Chuck Schumer
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It's been one week since I challenged @SenateMajLdr McConnell to finally agree to 3 principles:

1. Climate change is real
2. It's caused by humans
3. Congress needs to act

I still haven't heard anything from him. But here's what happened this week in GOP climate denial instead:
President @realDonaldTrump's administration decided all on their own to end talks with California about whether the state is allowed to set its own fuel-efficiency standards: sfgate.com/business/artic…
The @WhiteHouse wants to appoint William Happer to chair a panel on climate change & national security.

Happer actually believes more carbon dioxide is good.

He's even compared the "demonization of CO2" to the treatment of "Jews under Hitler."

What?! vox.com/2019/2/20/1823…
Remember this when you hear Republicans and Fox News commentators criticizing plans to tackle climate change:

Republicans have ZERO plans to address climate change.

It's time for @SenateMajLdr to stop hiding and tell the truth about climate change once and for all.
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Hard to believe Senate Republicans are trying again to vote on the nomination of Thomas Farr as a federal judge in NC. Farr's represented the NC legislature in not 1, not 2, but 3 challenges to the state’s 2011 congressional and legislative redistricting. Here’s how that went:
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