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Brian Schatz: “The building trades union called this bill the biggest job…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Schatz: Republicans Ripping People Off, Plunging Us Into Energy Crisis To Cut Taxes For Billionaires

Published | Video Starts at 11:22

This is literally none of that. This is ideology manifesting itself as energy policy. And what's going to happen is people are going to lose their jobs and pay tons more for electricity. The building trades union called this bill the biggest job killing bill in the history of this country. And they go on. Simply put, it is the equivalent of terminating more than 1,000 Keystone XL pipeline projects. I've been here for a while. (11:22–11:31)

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