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Bernie Sanders: “This legislation makes a bad situation even worse by opening…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Senator from Vermont's Opposition to Budget Resolution on Income Inequality and Social Programs

Published | Video Starts at 10:04

So what does this legislation do to address the extraordinary crisis that we face in terms of climate change? Well, hard to believe, but it This legislation makes a bad situation even worse by opening up vast swaths of public land to big oil companies so they can drill. baby, drill. And it opens up public lands to more and more oil companies. Brilliant. We face an existential threat, and this legislation makes that threat even worse. (10:04–10:19)

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Asserts that proposed legislation opens public lands for oil drilling, worsening climate issues.

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